Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days
H. N. Hutchinson
The book that put dinosaurs in front of the Victorian public, with restorations by Joseph Smit and Alice B. Woodward. It covers dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles and Ice Age mammals in plain language.
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