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Title: The Romance of Natural History, Second Series

Author: Philip Henry Gosse

Release Date: June 13, 2010 [EBook #32800]

Language: English

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THE ROMANCE

OF

NATURAL HISTORY.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,
PAUL'S WORK.

[Illustration: FASCINATION.

_Front._]

THE ROMANCE

OF

NATURAL HISTORY.

by
Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S.

Second Series.

LONDON:
JAMES NISBET AND CO., 21 BERNERS STREET.

M.DCCC.LXI.

CONTENTS.

I. THE EXTINCT.

PAGE

Death of Species -- Some Died in Early Historic Ages -- Some Dying Now
-- Changes of Land and Water -- Tertiary State of Europe -- Dinothere of
Germany -- Sivathere of India -- Gigantic Tortoise -- Pachyderms of
Siberia -- Rhinoceros -- Mammoth -- Mastodon of America -- Great
Quadrupeds of South America -- Sloths -- Habits of Mylodon -- Macrauchen
-- Toxodon -- Ancient Australia and its Colossal Birds -- Ancient
Britain -- Its Flora and Fauna -- Irish Elk -- Carnivores -- Chronology
of the Tertiary Era -- Contemporaneous Existence of Man with the Fossil
Fauna -- Gigantic Tortoise -- Condition of Siberian Pachyderms --
Discovery of the Remains -- Contemporary Fauna of Britain -- Chinese and
Siberian Traditions -- Indian Traditions of the Mastodon -- State of its
Remains -- Its Food -- Comparative Lateness of Geologic Processes in
America -- Possibility that the Mastodon was a Beast of Burden -- Darwin
on the South American Sloths -- Freshness of their Remains --
Synchronism with Existing Creatures -- Birds of Ne