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.
1 page in this part of Extinct Monsters.
"The wonders of geology exercise every faculty of the mind-reason, memory, imagination; and though we cannot put our fossils to the…