Volume 1

Curiosities of natural history. First[-fourth] series / by Francis T. Buckland.

  • Francis Trevelyan Buckland
Date:
1890-1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Curiosities of natural history. First[-fourth] series / by Francis T. Buckland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in a human subject, is gathered a class of attentive listeners of the same race as himself, all anxious to learn the history of the creature to whom the curious and, in comparison to their own, diminutive skull belonged. Professor Ichthyosaurus is made thus to address his audience—‘ You will at once perceive that the skull before us belonged to some of the lower order of animals—the teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws trifling; and altogether it seems curious how the creature could have procured food.’ In the following pages no attempt is made at fine writing, and the matter is put down much in the order that it occurred to me.# I trust it may afford some amusement, perhaps instruction, to those who take an interest in the curiosities of Natural History. F. T. BUCKLAND, 2nd Life Guards, Knightsbridge Barracks. Nor. 30, 1857. Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. * The above statement is fully borne out by the * Saturday Review,’ who in mentioning the book says, ‘ Mr. Buekland’s book reads like the contents of a note-book, thrown out pell-mell.’ Its aim is rather, again to quote the same journal—‘ amtiscmenl and profit,' than literary excellence.