Extinct Monsters. A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life

xxii, 270 pp. Marbled endpapers and marbled page ridges. Illustrations by J. Smit. CONTENTS: Preface by Dr. Henry Woodward; Author's Preface; Preface to Second Edition; Introduction; How Extinct Monsters are Preserved; Sea-Scorpions; The Great Fish-Lizards; The Great Sea-Lizards and Their Allies; The Dragons of Old Time--Dinosaurs; Flying Dragons; Sea-Serpents; Some American Monsters; Some Indian Monsters; Giant Sloths and Armadillos; The Mammoth; The Mastodon and the Woolly Rhinoceros; Giant Birds; The Great Irish Deer and Steller's Sea-Cow; Appendices: Table of Stratified Rocks - The Great Sea-Serpent - List of British Localities Where Remains of the Mammoth Have Been Discovered - Literature - Ichthyosaurs; Index.