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IN 1901, when Dr. Lucas was a curator of the United States National Museum, he published a most useful popular book on the study of fossils, with special reference to the remarkable extinct vertebrate animals found in North America. A decade later, when he became director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, he reprinted his work as one of the handbooks of that museum, where it has had a large sale. He now has issued a much-revised edition, with numerous new illustrations from fossils actually in the American Museum.
Animals of the Past: an Account of Some of the Creatures of the Ancient World.
By F. A. Lucas. Sixth and revised edition. (Handbook Series, No. 4.) Pp. xii + 207. (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1922.) n.p.
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W., A. Animals of the Past: an Account of Some of the Creatures of the Ancient World. Nature 112, 6 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112006a0
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