Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from On the Short Footed Ungulata of the Eocene of Wyoming: Read Before the American Philosophical Society, February 21, 1873
BY edward D. Cope. (read before the American Philosophical Society, Feb. 2lst, In no group of Mammalia have the determinations of palaeontology been more significant than in the Ungulata. Here, in an especial manner, the anticipations of science have been realized, in the filling up of the numerous gaps in the series of living forms. Here especially is it evi dent, that the existing fauna is but a fragment, and that the faunae of the past, as we know them to-day, are but the precursors of what we may bring to light to-morrow.
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