. The rise of the mammalia in North America [microform]. Mammals, Fossil; Mammals; Mammifères fossiles; Mammifères. m de. THE RISE OF THE MAMMALIA IN NORTH AMERICA. IIKNRV ) OSIIORN. TWENTV years ago an era opened in the mammalian palae- on ology of Europe and America. Partly inspired by the Odontosraphie of Rutimeyer, Kowalevsky completed and pub- lished in 1873 his four remarkable memoirs upon the hoofed mammals. He wrote these four hundred and fifty quarto pa^es .n three languages not his own. in French upon Anchitl!crUnn and the ancestry of the horses, in English upon the Ilyopo-
. The rise of the mammalia in North America [microform]. Mammals, Fossil; Mammals; Mammifères fossiles; Mammifères. m de. THE RISE OF THE MAMMALIA IN NORTH AMERICA. IIKNRV ) OSIIORN. TWENTV years ago an era opened in the mammalian palae- on ology of Europe and America. Partly inspired by the Odontosraphie of Rutimeyer, Kowalevsky completed and pub- lished in 1873 his four remarkable memoirs upon the hoofed mammals. He wrote these four hundred and fifty quarto pa^es .n three languages not his own. in French upon Anchitl!crUnn and the ancestry of the horses, in English upon the Ilyopo- tamtdac m German xxvon ^ siccus, Anthracothcrinm and Entclo. don, includmg the first attempt at an arrangement of a great group of mammals upon the basis of the descent theory These memoirs swept aside all the dry traditional fossil lore of Europe; they breathed the new spirit of Darwin, to whom the one was dedicated, making principles of descent of more importance than new genera and species. Kowalevsky thus summed up the contemporary palaeontology: "After the splendid osteological investigations of Cuvier had revealed to science a glimpse of a new mammalian world of won- derful richness, successors have been bent rather upon multi- pying the diversity of this extinct creation, than on diligently studying the organization of the fossil forms that successively turned up under the zeal of amateurs and collectors. . With the excep- tion of England (referring to Owen, Huxley, Falconer, and others) where the study of fossil mammalia was founded on a sound basis and some glorious exceptions on the continent (referring to Ruti! meyer, Gaudry, Fraas, Milne-Edwards), we have very few good palae- ontological memoirs in which the osteology of extinct mammals has been treated with sufficient detail and discrimination; and thin^js have come to such a pass, that we know far better the osteology of Sou h American Australian, and Asiatic genera of fossil mammals than of thos
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