The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-02-26

sTheir HGanyJCenturie Epoch They Hunted
Prey and Fought Throughout the Warn,
Moist Land and waters, or Rrowsed on
Giant Paims-To-aay the Solid Rock.
Once Clay. Reveals Their Giant Bones 20
the wouderine Case OF Modern Man.
The lack OF really popular works upon eeol-
ogy. and. indeed. all subjects whose names end
In ology. IL greatly to be deplored. A work
uron raleontoloey which in some measure
supplies this need for popular
In the Extinct Monsters" written by II. n.
Hutchinson. an English scientist OF sore note.
the author OF several meritorious popular
works on geology. Mr.. Hutchinson has done
his almost pioneer work well. as those who
read his interesting pages will find. Its pic-
lures show extinct monsters huge. unsiRhtly
creatures-such as ono might think would
rather populate the dreams Of a victim Of de-
llrium tremens than any such earth as oura.
We have got into an atmosphere incredibly
ancient and strange. We are no longer on the
earth over which man has dominion. We are
back in those dim eras when mar was not.
We are not breathing the pure. clear dir
which stirs under the blue OF our sky. but an
air warm. moist. and heavy with carbon. en-
~veloping n strange landscape. There are great
and violent earthquakes and volcanic erup-
tons. there arc vaster mountains. there are
deeper valleys. miehtier rivers. oceans OF
enormous extent. The vegetation Is rank and
huge. The seas are alive. not with whales
and with such sea creatures. great and small.
men. but with monst osities. some small. 9TH
era OF large size. lifting their long. shiny
the surface with great swiftness and leaving
behind them a wake AS OF IN ocean vessel.
sunshine or Turk in awful contentment under
the Leaves Of siSan,ic ferns n; and nd c 5;. e bsc,m.
Uffariv eytippt- even In RpnCieS, gave way to
other types. and finally to the types we have
sS,sss Not Win Wholly %" dsst e{ them; r Shsp So shss s'sa:
in the ooze or were covered with the mould OF
t tbs iS ssn.s l sas wa. 1a sisi tasss astl "w BSt fF tSe
bones remained: and gradually the ooze or
mould hardened into rock. nj l. took cen.aF res:
inss open the rocks have brought the bones. to
and. have, in description. reclad them with
flesh. and have made. them walk and fy. and
and have set them upon the earth at the tins
and with the surroundings they originally had
and the land still auakinG and baking over the
internal fires then SO near the surface. it. was
no Snima IN s sna Ys snd | sFIae l io1%s; sr d;iisaYY
In the animal kingdom there were. ~inverte-
brates OF which. except in the shell fish. we
seums there must be ZONES or nothing Ct al:
After this. through the long eras. the fishes
developed and the reptiles. When these had
divided into countless species. there appeared
not. huge creatures. partly fish aud partly
reptile. From the vast numbers OF skeletons
and fragments OF skeletons Of these monsters.
the seas must have swarmed with them.
The first OF these for our menagerie is the
fish lizard. known pretty we'll as the icthyo-
saurus. This monster Is regarded by natural
ists as. one OF the most monstrous ever dis
covered. 1t possessed the snout Of a dolphin.