Nature . rapidly over such forms as the ancientrhinoceros, the northern hippopotamus, tin braver,and great auk—once common in Britain, but nowextinct- the author tells how zebras, quaggas,antelopes, and garaffes are being fasl killed off inAfrica by our sportsmen, whilst the dodo and Stellers sea-cow were eaten up long ago, likethe giant tortoises, by our early voyagers, whovictualled their -ships, with these rare animals. The author next explains the causes which havebrought aboul the migration of some animals and theextinction of others, and how changes of climate and 1 Extinct Animals. By E
Nature . rapidly over such forms as the ancientrhinoceros, the northern hippopotamus, tin braver,and great auk—once common in Britain, but nowextinct- the author tells how zebras, quaggas,antelopes, and garaffes are being fasl killed off inAfrica by our sportsmen, whilst the dodo and Stellers sea-cow were eaten up long ago, likethe giant tortoises, by our early voyagers, whovictualled their -ships, with these rare animals. The author next explains the causes which havebrought aboul the migration of some animals and theextinction of others, and how changes of climate and 1 Extinct Animals. By E Ray taPp. xxiv+33a ; with 218 illustrations. (LoCo., Ltd., 1905 ) Price ^s. 6d. ne: November 2, i 905] NATURE / allrations of coast-lines have modified the existingii much that, as in our own islands, GreatBritain and Ireland were, at no remote geologicaltime, joined to France, and a continental, instead ..Ian insular, climate prevailed here, with hottersummers and colder winters, suited to the mammoth. and reindeer which roved quite freely from land toland. He explains what fossils are, and how thesedimentary deposits, in which extinct organismsoccur, have been gradually laid down on the sea-floor or along coast-lines. From minor changes heillustrates those greater ones which took placelong since involving whole continents, sothat where London now is was formerly thesea with marine shells and fishes, aptly re-minding one of Lord Tennysons lines :— Oh Earth ! what changes hast thou seen—There where the great street roarsWas once the stillness of the central sea. The story of the living and extinctelephants is well told, and we get the latestevidence of the progenitors of these veryancient prehistoric beasts, the result of explorations and discoveries in theFayum, Egypt, which has carried theirancestry back to the Eocene Palaeomastodonand Meritherium. Near to the elephantscomes the wonderful Arsinoitherium, alsofrom the Fayum, with a pair of prodigioushorns on
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