EXTINCT WHALES AND WOMBATS 31 1 
some of the largest, most strange, and wonderful forms of life that 
in remote ages have found a home on this planet. And perhaps 
a few of our readers may be induced to add a new and never- 
failing interest to their lives by searching in the stony record for 
traces of the world’s lost creations.” If so, our labour will not 
have been in vain. 
