Abstract
THE drawings in this volume are similar in character to the amusing “Prehistoric Peeps” contributed to Punch by Mr. E. T. Reed a few years ago. In preparing his drawings, Mr. Reed worked to produce striking effects; and as there is artistic as well as poetic licence, he was justified in introducing into his pictures any objects which would appeal to the sense of the ludicrous. But to the mind of the palæontologist, a picture containing prehistoric humans in company with such old forms of life as Pterodactylus and Stegosaurus, and creatures which had their origin in the artist's imagination, appears a trifle grotesque, though it may afford amusement to thousands of persons who do not understand the incongruity of the arrangement of characters depicted.
Primeval Scenes; being some Comic Aspects of Life in Prehistoric Times.
By Rev. H. N. Hutchinson Illustrated by J. Hassall and F. V. Burridge. (London: Lamley and Co., 1899.)
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Primeval Scenes; being some Comic Aspects of Life in Prehistoric Times . Nature 61, 150 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061150b0
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