"His sketch of historic geology has a genuine continuity. It is so written as to be understanded of plain people, and is illustrated by some very good woodcuts and diagrams."--_Saturday Review._ "This most interesting book."--_Spectator._ "A delightfully written and thoroughly accurate popular work on geology, well calculated to engage the interest of readers in the fascinating study of the Stony Science."--_Science Gossip._ "In this work the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson produces a popular account of geological history, and explains the principles and methods by which that history has been read. He endeavours to interpret the past by the light of the present, first acquiring a knowledge, by direct observation and self-instruction, of the chief operations now taking place on the earth's surface, and then employing this knowledge to ascertain the meaning of the record of stratified rocks. This principle of 'uniformity' knocked the old teaching of catastrophism on the head. The author is accurate in all his details, yet his subject is touched into something not at all unlike romance. The illustrations are good."--_National Observer._ London: EDWARD STANFORD, 26 & 27, Cockspur Street, S.W. * * * * * Transcriber's Note Spelling and hyphenation was standardized. All OE and oe ligatures were converted to "Oe" and "oe" respectively. The word Garuda has a macron over the u in the printed version. Missing endquote from the quoted passage, beginning in the last paragraph on page 85, was confirmed by consulting Mantell's "The Medals of Creation" (p. 17). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Extinct Monsters, by H. N. Hutchinson