E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, John Campbell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 59928-h.htm or 59928-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59928/59928-h/59928-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59928/59928-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/kingdomofman00lankrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). The change noted in the ERRATUM (pg xiii) has been applied to the etext. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ⅓ ¼ etc; other fractions are shown in the form a/b, for example 1/5000. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. [Illustration: Cranial Dome of _Pithecanthropus erectus_ from river gravel in Java. Skull of a Greek from an ancient Cemetery.] THE KINGDOM OF MAN by E. RAY LANKESTER M.A. D.Sc. LL.D. F.R.S. Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; Correspondent of the Institute of France; Emeritus Professor of University College, London; President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Director of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum London Archibald Constable & Co Ltd 10 Orange Street, Leicester Square 1907 * * * * * * EXTINCT ANIMALS BY Prof. E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. With a Portrait of the Author, and 218 other Illustrations _Demy 8vo._ _Price 7s. 6d. net_ DESCRIPTIVE NOTE. The author gives us here a peep at the wonderful history of the kinds of animals which no longer exist on the surface of the globe in a living state, though once they flourished and held their own. Young and old readers will alike enjoy Prof. Lankester’s interesting narrative of these strange creatures, some of which became extinct millions of years ago, others within our own memory. The author’s account of the finding of their extant remains, their probable habits and functions of life, and their places in the world’s long history, is illustrated profusely from point to point, adding greatly to the entertainment of the story. _=Nature=_: “ ... We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists, and many readers to its pages.”