The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-22
LECTURES LAST NIGHT.

The Mast0don and Mammoth Period.
Dr.. J. f. Boynt0n delivered the sixth and last Of
his series Of lectures in the large hall OF the Cooper
Institute last evening" the closing subject being
Tho Msstodon and Mammoth Period.n The at
tendance, at all the previous lectures was large
and apprecative. Referring briefly to the subject
matter OF his preceding lecture, he said that when
we arrive at the tertiary formation we come TO the
period OF warm-booded animals. Among those have
been found animals OF the marsupial department OF
animated nature. like to the kangaroo. The
marsupal race have q second embryons state,
the young remaining In the female pouch
till they capable OF taking care OF themselves
nhs vth.~ ~-s->~is. sho-tiy .hav are horn Nc
next came to the onoronethas species with q beak
like Q duck. The lecturer here described the De-
culiarty OF this bird and It's connection anatomcay
speaking with birds and reptiles. Tho creatures
nrst suckle like animals then they become more
birdlke. They can be domesticated for time, but
n they ever get freedom to 60 where they like tho
animal returns. Referring to tho orders OF life
at the present time he would refer to his dia.
grams. There were animals which walked upright
and others that walked horizontally. On the
diagram he pointed ont the tertiary period
OF animals In which the orders OF life were not
nearly so numerous as IN the preceding ages-the
Dev0nian and others. The nrst figure presented on
the chart was the turtle. These animals when they
are Matched from the eggs perfect type OF the
older animals. emains Of turtles have been found
OF such size that when they were IN this life they
must have weighed ton. The next presented was
an animal that can be tanned and made very
familiar In the houses OF the people, This was
the horned lizard, o hideous looking. but Q
very harmless animal. The animal, not more
than three or four inches In length, sits like .
squirrel cracking nuts. The next animal presented
sr~tta-
small animal, known a. louise, found on MICE
The next was the wicked nea, that no man pur-
Sues but Is always pursued by the ladesn This
orally very troublesome. There u anoth or animal
that infests the brain, liver lungs and esh This 10
the internal worm. Speaking OF the hog disease,
hogs-a disease OF which we have heard good DEAL
but which Is not dangerous. should the nesh be
animals lies In the nesh OF the hog Say In square
inch Of ham there are no less than two hundred an d
NIFTY thousand Of these 50 nat am man eat four
WIN have swallowed one million OF this trchnea. or
hog worm. II the meat infected by the trichnea Is
then the person eating Of 1t will have swallowed the
living germ, and the disease In that person
may become apparent ana very destructive dssh
waterspout, which It was supposed
mad overthrown whole districts cutting down trees
and destroying animals, the remains OF which are
vet to be found. Having closed his history OF the
tertiary period. ne now came TO the ostrich-the
he spreadeth his wingsb Job says, 'spurnetn the
horse and his rider" In the island or Madagascar
were known birds very much larger than the ostrich
Of the present day, whose egg was thirteen and
half inches In length and four inches In diameter
He came next to animals that live on the
surface OF the sea- like whales and Others
This species, In the full grown state, are but EN-
bryonic OF q higher state OF life. The various AMI
mals ranging from the lower order to the higher
order were then described by REPRESENTATIONS
on the chart and by the interesting descrip
tlons Of the lecturer touching upon them In their
New Holland and others Of the same species After
these came the armadiIlo, filling up a gap between
the lower orders OF animals ana those OF =
higher state. The latter were represented IN
the later portion OF the tertiary age. The
lecturer then referred TO another species OF
the tertiary age-animals called the tapers, OF
Southern Asia and South America though these AMI
mails apparentiy alike In the two distant countries
were not altogether OF similar species. Cuviei
reconstructed many OF the animals that have passes
away-reconstructed them oy putting roge.nes ~, ~
that was requisite to an anatomlst IN natural ns-
tory. Al an architect could tell by finding the zap
base Of Corn.hian pillar taaa n rcctn Do 40
could the naturalist tell from lew bones TO- nas
species defunct animals belonged.
The next animal represented was the rniroceros,
which bore some resemblance to the large, reptile
OF another age. The reptile OF which the rlin0ceros
was = certain type had also horn. This was one
OF the larger reptiles. The lecturer then presented
on his chart the cow tne lop anu nnaw n mn tue sns
chart were presented excellent lifeliks busts Of the
two candidates at the late election for the Prest-
cency-seymour and General Grant; Ai Ter mem n,
on different tracks, been aiming At and after this
came the Capitol. These representations were very
fine and elected the paudits OF the audience. The
lecturer then closed and the audience separated
LOkflNc AND lABoalHS.