Chapter VII: Reading the Riddles of the Rocks

Fossils regarded as sports of nature, 111; qualifications of a
successful collector, 112; chances of collecting, 114;
excavation of fossils, 115; strengthening fossils for shipment,
117; great size of some specimens, 118; the preparation of
fossils, 119; mistakes of anatomists, 120; reconstruction of
Triceratops, 121; distinguishing characters of bones, 122; the
skeleton a problem in mechanics, 124; clothing the bones with
flesh, 127; the covering of animals, 127; outside ornamentation,
129; probabilities in the covering of animals, 130; impressions
of extinct animals, 131; mistaken inferences from bones of
Mammoth, 133; coloring of large land animals, 134; color
markings of young animals, 136; references, 137.