Note 752 — Chapter XIX
Reading edition
Signifying molar-tooth,—a name intended to express that the animal has only teeth adapted for grinding; but this term is equally applicable to all the other megatheroid animals.
[753] See "Description of the Skeleton of an extinct gigantic Sloth (Mylodon robustus)," &c., by Richard Owen, F.R.S. Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1 vol. 4to. with twenty-four plates, 1842. The lithographs in this work, by Mr. Scharf, are of the highest excellence: the figure of the entire skeleton of the animal, on a scale of two inches to a foot, is admirable.