The Bolivian Monster, 
[April, 
200 
and the description the creature ^^‘"^parallel position 
already described, two otheis, p 1 A et behind the 
on «»<* f ? ^e^wo ’suSia" heals, though some- 
XTsmaHer Jvelhe same eyes, ears and jaws as the 
what smaller, i PV are both turned forwards, 
principal head, and they a nothing similar has 
be [‘ il^^th“ron y g the vertebrates, the arthropods, 
or any other cephalous class of animal 
We may venture. on ‘ he and intern 
are either really t h ke conceive the possibility 
tional falsehood. We ca Snnnosine for a moment 
of a mistake or of exaggeia • p portraiture of an 
we have here before us the « orf and the po^ of 
actual faCt, we have next , we t0 do with a mon- 
some rare animal spe^ . e unfortunate ly is not 
strosity ? riot, hi/eiu liberty of communicating 
g TC Wl ^examin e d t the“anl‘m& y forms the conelu- 
with him — nas examines mnr , 5 trn«iitv but is a perfectly 
sion that the specimen is not a monst^^ y; rcumstance upon 
normal member of a 1 a P based is that certain earthen 
which this conclusio . ^ tbe i ncaSj are made 
vessels, which date bac animal- Hence it is inferred 
in imitation of the foim Saurian was more common 
that in former times this strai g S . form — certainly 
° f the ancient Peru ' 
vii t?r p0t innnt here take up the numerous and grave questions, 
will be hardei to accou ,i evt ] opm cnt ljy natural selec- 
ton\ C boTas 0 [t°seems to us, will find the task far from 
e& We may, however glance at the evidence 
existence of the cieatuie e That taken from the 
h™ 1883. says that 
Anglo-Brazilian in ? e , T n Paz had sent home to his 
the Brazilian representa , • ” 0 f an extraordinary 
Government -‘photographs of diawin^ ot „ g 
Saurian. On the other hand, th = J°“^ a .. severa j photo- 
merely that the Saurian This difference is 
5^;; 0 n f s.“ “fie ' phXg^hs have been taken diredtly 
