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Extinct Monsters: A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life (1893) (Classic Reprint)
Extinct Monsters A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life - 1893 - Classic Reprint Author:H. N. Hutchinson PREFACE BY DR. HENRY WOODWARD, F.R.S. KttKPKK Of OKOLOGV, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. I HAVE been requested by my friend Mr. Hutchinson, to express my opinion upon the series of drawings which have been prepared by that excellent artist of animals, Mr. Smit, for this little book entitled " Extinct Monsters." Many of the stories told in early days, o... more »f Giants and Dragons, may have originated in the discovery of the limb-bones of the Mammoth, the Rhinoceros, or other large animals, in caves, associated with heaps of broken fragments, in which latter the ignorant peasant saw in fancy the remains of the victims devoured at the monster's repasts. In Louis Figuier's World before the Deluge we are favoured with several highly sensational views of extinct monsters ; whilst the pen of Dr. Kinns has furnished valuable information as to the " slimy" nature of their blood! The late Mr. G. Waterhouse Hawkins (formerly a lithographic artist) was for years occupied in unauthorised restorations
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