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.

Footprints on the Sands of Time

11 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Footprints on the Sands of Time

"They are fraught with strange meanings, these footprints of Connecticut." -HUGH MILLER.

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Palæontology

Another branch of geology, namely Palæontology, with which we are about to deal in the present work, tells us of the longlost tribes of…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Protichnites

These very ancient tracks are known to geologists under the name Protichnites, and the creature that produced them must have made no less…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Dumfriesshire

In about the year 1830, much interest was excited by the discovery of footmarks, resembling those of land tortoises, on the exposed…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Cheshire

Some years previous to 1856, a series of strange impressions was found in a quarry in the lowest part of the Millstone Grit formation at…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Williamson

Professor W. C. Williamson has described some very interesting impressions from Cheshire. They were found, by a former pupil of his (Mr. J…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Sandstone

These impressions figured by Professor Williamson remind one a good deal of some tracks described by Professor Huxley, in his paper on a…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Hitchcock

FOOTPRINTS OF DINOSAURS, FROM CONNECTICUT SANDSTONE. Showing impressions of the small fore feet (1 and 3). (After Hitchcock.) "the huge…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Commonwealth

Professor Hitchcock's work on this subject was much appreciated by his countrymen, as the following facts will show. It was resolved by the…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Ichnology

But, in justice to Dr. Deane, we must not omit to mention his part in the description and figuring of these interesting records…

Footprints on the Sands of Time: Connecticut

Those impressions which Hitchcock believed to have been made by birds show a regular increase in the number of joints FIG. 5. Footprints…

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