Transcriber's Note Text emphasis denoted by _Italics_ and =Bold=. Whole and fractional parts as 123-4/5. [Illustration] JOSEPH DINKEL. DEL. ET LITH. PRINTED BY M. & N. HANHAR THE PERFECT SERIES OF THE BONES OF THE RIGHT FOOT OF THE =MOA=, OR EXTINCT COLOSSAL OSTRICH-LIKE BIRD OF =NEW ZEALAND= FOUND IMBEDDED IN AN ERECT POSITION, WITH THE CORRESPONDING FOOT A YARD IN ADVANCE, IN A TURRARY DEPOSIT, AT =WAIKOUAITI= IN THE MIDDLE ISLAND, BY =WALTER MANTELL ESQ^{RE}= OF =WELLINGTON=. FIGURES 1^a 2^a 3^a THE PLANTAR OR UNDER SURFACE OF THE FIRST, SECOND & THIRD TOES. THE FIGURES ARE 1/3 NATURAL SIZE LINEAR. THE ORIGINAL BIRD WAS ABOUT 10 FEET HIGH. A PICTORIAL ATLAS OF FOSSIL REMAINS, CONSISTING OF COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS SELECTED FROM PARKINSON'S "ORGANIC REMAINS OF A FORMER WORLD;" AND ARTIS'S "ANTEDILUVIAN PHYTOLOGY." WITH DESCRIPTIONS BY GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL, ESQ. LL.D. F.K.S. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, ETC. AUTHOR OF "THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY," ETC. ETC. [Illustration] "All things in nature are engaged in writing their own history. The planet and the pebble are attended by their shadows--the rolling rock leaves its farrows on the mountain side--the river its channel in the soil--the animal its bones in the stratum--the fern and the leaf inscribe their modest epitaphs on the coal--the falling drop sculptures its story on the sand, or on the stone--not a footstep on the snow or on the ground but traces in characters more or less enduring the record of its progress."--_Emerson._ With Seventy-four plates, CONTAINING NEARLY NINE HUNDRED FIGURES. LONDON: H. G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1850. LONDON: R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL. TO THE VERY REVEREND WILLIAM BUCKLAND, D.D. F.R.S. Dean of Westminster, &c. &c. &c. THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE HIGH RESPECT AND AFFECTIONATE REGARD OF ONE WHO HAS FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS ENJOYED THE HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP. Chester Square, Pimlico, _January 1850._ PREFACE.