Chapter XXIV: Appendix: IV
LITERATURE.
1. Popular Works.
_The Story of the Earth and Man._ By Sir Wm. Dawson.
_The Mammoth and the Flood._ By Sir Henry Howorth.
_Works by Doctor Gideon A. Mantell_:--
_Medals of Creation._
_Wonders of Geology._
_Petrifactions and their Teaching._
_Phases of Animal Life._ By R. Lydekker.
_Science for All._ 5 vols. (Chapters on Extinct Animals.)
_Our Earth and its Story_, vol. ii.
_Winners in Life's Race._ By Arabella Buckley.
_The Autobiography of the Earth._ By Rev. H. N. Hutchinson.
_Sea Monsters Unmasked._ By H. Lee.
2. Works of Reference.
_A Manual of Palæontology._ 2 vols. By Prof. Alleyne Nicholson, and
R. Lydekker.
_The Life-History of the Earth._ By Prof. Alleyne Nicholson.
_Origin of Species._ By C. Darwin. Also _The Journal of Researches._
_The Old Red Sandstone._ By Hugh Miller.
_Sketch Book of Popular Geology._ By Hugh Miller.
_Early Man in Britain._ By Prof. Boyd Dawkins.
_The English Encyclopedia._ (The 2 vols. on Natural History contain
much information on extinct animals.)
_The Encyclopedia Britannica._ Ninth Edition.
_Memoirs of the Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri._ By Thos. Hawkins.
Phillips's _Manual of Geology_. New Edition, by Prof. H. G. Seeley
and R. Etheridge.
_The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons._ By Thos. Hawkins.
_The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals._ By
A. Heilprin.
_Prehistoric Europe._ By Prof. James Geikie.
_Palæontological Memoirs._ By Hugh Falconer, M.D.
_Mammals, Living and Extinct._ By Prof. Flower and R. Lydekker.
_British Fossil Mammals and Birds._ By Sir R. Owen.
_A Manual of Palæontology._ By Sir R. Owen.
_A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata._ By A. S. Woodward and
C. D. Sherborn.
3. Monographs.
_The Dinocerata._ By Prof. O. C. Marsh. _United States Geological
Survey_, vol. x. Washington, 1884.
_The Odontornithes_, a Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North
America. By Prof. O. C. Marsh. New Haven, Connecticut, 1880.
_The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations._ By Prof. E. D. Cope.
Washington, 1883.
_The Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Formations of the West._ By Prof.
E. D. Cope. Washington, 1875.
_Contributions to the Extinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western
Territories._ By Joseph Leidy. Washington, 1873.
(The last three are in the reports of the _United States Geological
Survey of the Territories_.)
_The British Merostomata_ (Palæontographical Society). By Dr. Henry
Woodward, F.R.S.
Monographs by Sir Richard Owen.
_A History of British Fossil Reptiles._ 4 vols. (Cassell.) (Most of
which has been previously published in the _Monographs of the
Palæontographical Society_.)
_On the Megatherium, or Giant Ground Sloth of America._ London, 1860.
_On the Mylodon._ London, 1842.
_On the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand._ London, 1878.
Reprinted from _The Transactions of the Zoological Society_.
4. Journals.
The student should consult the numerous papers by Prof. Marsh in _The American Journal of Science_; and by Prof. Cope in _The American Naturalist_. Many of Prof. Marsh's papers have also appeared in _The Geological Magazine_ and in _Nature_. The two latter journals contain many other valuable papers (and reviews of Monographs, etc.), too numerous to be separately mentioned. Some are referred to in the text. _The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society_ contains many papers on Extinct Animals. See also papers in _Natural Science_ and _Knowledge_.
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