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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO
Frontispiece.—A Pleistocene tar-pool in southern California: †Giant Wolves (Canis †dirus) and †Sabre-tooth Tiger (†Smilodon californicus) on the carcass of an elephant (Elephas †columbi). The elephant is hairless, as may have been true of the southern race.
A HISTORY OF LAND MAMMALS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
BY WILLIAM B. SCOTT Ph.D. (Heidelberg), Hon.D.Sc. (Harvard & Oxford), LL.D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania) BLAIR PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 PLATES AND MORE THAN 100 DRAWINGS BY BRUCE HORSFALL
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1913
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Copyright, 1913, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1913.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Dedicated TO MY CLASSMATES HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN and FRANCIS SPEIR IN MEMORY OF A NOTABLE SUMMER AFTERNOON IN 1876 AND IN TOKEN OF FORTY YEARS’ UNCLOUDED FRIENDSHIP
Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.
—Job, xii, 8.
Can these bones live?
—Ezekiel, xxxvii, 3.