Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days

The book that introduced the public to dinosaurs: sea-lizards, flying dragons, mammoths and the first horse, drawn from life by J. Smit and told by a clergyman-geologist who thought the museum's 'relics of a former world' deserved a storyteller.

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Extinct Whales and Wombats: Palæontology

Extinct Animals. Sir E. Ray Lankester. 2. WORKS OF REFERENCE A Manual of Palæontology. 2 vols. By Prof. Alleyne Nicholson and R. Lydekker.

The Life-History of the Earth. By Prof. Alleyne Nicholson. Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin.

The English Encyclopedia. (The 2 vols. on Natural History contain much information on extinct animals.) The Encyclopedia Britannica. Eighth or Ninth Editions. Vertebrate Palæontology. By A. Smith Woodward.

Phillips's Manual of Geology. New Edition, by Prof. H. G. Seeley and R. Etheridge.

Prehistoric Europe. By Prof. James Geikie. " APPENDIX Palæontological Memoirs. By Hugh Falconer, M.D.

Mammals Living and Extinct. By Sir William Flower and R. Lydekker.

British Fossil Mammals and Birds. By Sir R. Owen.

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