The elephants : die Rüssel-Tiere, Proboscidea, Sslonn(u) : (a zoological mnemonic) / by Richard John Anderson.

  • Anderson, Richard John, 1848-1914.
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The elephants : die Rüssel-Tiere, Proboscidea, Sslonn(u) : (a zoological mnemonic) / by Richard John Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Climate, glaciers, fields of snow. And sea, and ice in berg and floe ; Interglacial times occurred, To these life has not much demurred. Oft subsidence of land took place, The ocean coming on apace ; In time the land again appears, After the lapse, perhaps, of years. The bones that are in places found, Deep buried underneath the ground, In Europe, Asia, and U.S., Led to many a curious guess By the various tribes of men, To indicate their origin. And so as everyone does boast Of evanesced gentil'ty most. And of an Uncle's Cousin tell. To whom a rarish fortune fell. Or of a friend three times removed. Who well born, brave, or wordy proved ; Or ancestor, that's long since dead, Who for the king had lost his head. [No man would hesitate to claim A sheep stealer of his own name. If he lived some centuries back, And got suspended by the neck.] 'Tis thus the Eedmen show with pride The bones earth can no longer hide ; They say the Uintatherium bones The ancestry of Eedmen owns. And the chief grows more defiant. Thinking his grandsire a giant. It was of Old World men the fate. In sixteen blank, no early date. Bones Mastodon to have shown round As ancestors. Such giants found In France caused most intense delight