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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. XII. 
remarks are made : ‘ The restoration from a 
single fossil fragment of complete skeletons of 
creatures long since extinct, first effected by the 
genius of Cuvier, has always been considered one 
of the most striking achievements of modern 
science. Our British Cuvier, Professor Owen, has 
lent us his assistance in carrying these scientific 
triumphs a step further and in bringing them 
down to popular apprehension. Aided by the 
indefatigable exertions of the modeller, who with 
his own hands moulded their forms, the gigantic 
iguanodon, the ichthyosaurus, and other monsters 
of the diluvian world will now present themselves 
to the eye as they once disported themselves and 
pursued their prey amongst the forests and 
marshes of the secondary and tertiary periods.’ 
How far the labours of Professor Owen and other 
learned men in setting forth these extinct crea- 
tures in the Crystal Palace grounds have succeeded 
in educating the mind of British public, may per- 
haps be considered as doubtful.® 
® The writer lately made a 
pilgrimage to the Crystal Palace, 
and succeeded in effecting a 
surreptitious landing upon the 
island where the forms of these 
extinct monsters are displayed. 
Here he found the specimens in 
question slightly dilapidated as 
to tails and other extremities, 
together with a total absence of 
anything like explanation, or 
even names of the creatures. 
From the remarks of the British 
holiday-makers he gathered that 
the popular mind was divided 
as to whether these images were 
inferior imitations, on a large 
scale, of certain animals at the 
Zoological Gardens — wherein 
the popular mind had a vague 
sense of being defrauded — or 
whether they were not creations 
