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.

The Story of the Elephants

6 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

The Story of the Elephants (Yes where the huntsman winds)

"Yes, where the huntsman winds his matin horn, And the couched hare beneath the covert trembles; Where shepherds tend their flocks, and…

The Story of the Elephants: Andrews

FIG. 100.-Skull and lower jaw of Maritherium lyonsi, Middle Eocene of the Fayûm, Egypt. (After C. W. Andrews.) Museum at South Kensington…

The Story of the Elephants: Mammoth

THE MAMMOTH Many are the traditions and tales that have clustered round the Mammoth. He is, however, no fabulous product of the 1 The word…

The Story of the Elephants: Cuvier

It is amusing to note the devices to which people resorted in order to combat this revolutionary teaching. Thus, when Cuvier first…

The Story of the Elephants: Europe

The fossil remains of elephants have, on account of their common occurrence in various parts of the world, attracted a great deal of…

The Story of the Elephants: Petersburg

The skeleton of this specimen, the fame of which may be said to have spread all over the world, is now set up in the Museum of the St…

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