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the loud, sharp snappfngs of its formidably-armed 
jaws. He might have watched the deadly struggle 
between the crocodile and the joalaeothere, and 
have been himself warned by the hoarse and deep 
bellowings of the alligator from the dangerous 
vicinity of its retreat. Our fossil evidences supply 
us with ample materials for this most strange pic- 
ture of the animal life of ancient Britain ; and what 
adds to the singularity and interest of the restored 
icibleaii vivaiit is the fact that it could not now 
be presented in any part of the world. The same 
forms of crocodilian reptile, it is true, still exist ; 
but the habitats of the crocodile and the alligator 
are wide asunder, thousands of miles of land and 
ocean intervening ; one is peculiar to the tropical 
rivers of continental Asia ; the other is restricted 
to the warmer latitudes of North and South 
America ; both forms are excluded from Africa, 
in the rivers of which continent true crocodiles 
alone are found. Not one representative of the 
crocodilian order naturally exists in any part of 
Europe , yet every form of the order once 
flourished in close proximity to each other in a 
territory which now forms part of England.’ 
Amongst the other papers which he found time 
to write may be mentioned the ‘ Anatomy of the 
Apteryx’ (‘Zoological Transactions’), ‘On the 
Hippopotamus’ (at the Zoological Gardens), in 
the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ 
and also the first of a long series of papers on 
