D Dinornis (fearfully great bird, not completed). Ma Mastodon (not completed). II Iguanodons. P Plesiosaurus (akin to lizard). Dicynodon. Ic Icthyosaurus (fish lizard). C Coal Formation, “I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and studs the time in which he lives; and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite os individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence. have ordained.”—Prince Albert's Speech at the Mansion House Banquet, 1849. “Upon a Roman holiday, hecatombs of wild beasts were slain, and sanguinary conflicts took place of_man against man. We propose to gratify the ‘people'witin other agencies, more in harmony with our civilization and our Christianity.”-S, Robert Peel, on the same occasion. c96 CONTENTS. . . . . THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851: ITS FACTS AND RESULTS Opposition to the Great Exhibition Removal of the building from Hyde Park The Crystal Palace saved from destruction THE PEOPLE'S PALACE REBUILT AT SYDENHAM Terrific banquet in an Iguanodon The Directors report progress, and ask for more funds The Crystal Palace : its construction and dimensions Assyrian Courts Byzantine and Romanesque Courts . . . . . . English and German Modern Sculpture Court French and Italian Modern Sculpture Court Printed Fabrics-Woollen and Mixed Fabrics Leather and its Manufactures-India Rubber WEST GALLERY-Philosophical Instruments China and Glass—Precious Metals--Substances used as food 166 THE TERRACES, FOUNTAINS, AND PARK THE GEOLOGICAL ISLANDS AND THEIR ANTEDILUVIAN INHABITANTS 185 |