EXTINCT MONSTERS. 
Jl Popular Account of some of the Larger Forms of Ancient 
Animal Life. 
By the Eev. H. N. HUTCHINSON. 
With numerous Illustrations by J. Smit and others, and a Preface by 
De. Henry Woodward, F.K.S. Demy 8vo, 12s. 
A New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 
SOME OPINIONS OF TEE PRESS. 
The G-eolog-ical Mag-azine says : — " The author indulges in no rodomontade, 
but gives a careful and readable account of the wonderful discoveries which m<id( rn 
geological research in the Rocky Mountains, and in many other parts of the world, has 
brought to light. The twenty-four full-page illustrations are admirably executed, and 
there are thirty-eight others in the text. There is a freshness about the whole thing 
which suggests ' Alice in Wonderland.' The book is a safe book to put into the hands 
of the young, and cannot fail to interest geologists of all ages. It will make an admir- 
able and attractive New Year's book which every one should buy and read for them- 
B^lves." 
The Saturday Review says :— " Mr. Hutchinson writes pleasantly and un- 
affectedly, combining much information of scientific value with many interesting anecdotes 
of the discovery of fossils, and the legends which have gathered round them. His book, 
in short, is both attractive and useful, and will add to his reputation as a popular, but 
accurate, writer on geological subjects." 
The Athenaeum, says :— " This is undoubtedly the best book Mr. Hutchinson has 
yet written. He sets before us, in pleasant form, a really valuable description of many 
of those extraordinary forms of ancient life which are but little known, save to the special 
student of palaeontology. Not content with the dry bones which have been unearthed by 
the spade and pick of the geological explorer, the author seeks to revivify these relics, and 
to place them before us as they probably appeared when clothed with flesh and instinct 
with life. Mr. Hutchinson has been fortunate in receiving the advice of the Geological 
Department of the British Museum and the skilful pen of Mr. Smit, who is probably 
unsurpassed as a scientific artist of animals." 
The Field says :— " In ' Extinct Monsters ' the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson has admirably 
succeeded in his aim at giving a popular account of the larger forms of animal life. In the 
present volume we have a competent palaiontologist, who has availed himself of the most 
recent discoveries, and has been assisted by some of the first geologists in the kingdom, 
who have taken a great interest in the work, and whose revision of the proof-sheets gives 
us a guarantee that, astounding as the statements of Mr. Hutchinson appear, and 
monstrous as the illustrations of Mr. Smit undoubtedly are, they describe and actually 
represent the extinct forms which have recently come to light. It is thoroughly 
readable." 
Black and White says :— " M. Cuvier's vast and splendid knowledge of existing 
beasts and birds enabled him to reconstruct from a fossil skull or a vertebra, sometimes 
from nothing but a single tooth, the long extinct creature in its true semblance as it had 
lived — to clot le it with flesh and skin and show it, in imagination, in the haunts in which it 
lived and moved. This, which Baron Cuvier did in graphic description of great scientific and 
literary beauty, Mr. Hutchinson, in his work on 'Extinct Monsters,' has done popularly 
and done learnedly, and with the accompaniment of many most admirable illustrations. 
. . . This learned, interesting, and popular book." 
The National Observer says :— " Mr. H. N. Hutchinson, in « Extinct Monsters,* 
has produced a piece of natural history that is far more amusing than most novels, and 
as full of instruction as a book of its size can well be ; it is illustrated with many diagrams, 
and with five and twenty plates, the work of Mr. J. Smit, whose excellence is vouched for 
by no less an authority than Dr. Henry Woodward; and to the unscientific eye they are 
certainly graphic and spirited." 
