Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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1U i o n H ofyears old; that fossil remainsof animals hadbeen depositedtens of thou-sands of years;that a largeshare of theremains thusfnund were ofunimals. rep-tiles and birdsthat had becomeextinct; andwhile often large were coarse, and of a lower order than any now existing. These discoveries gradually led the scientists on in their investi-gations; thefact of tens ofthousands ofyears beinggiven for ananimal tochange itscharacter,greatly assist-.ing in the es-tablishment ofthe develop-ment idea.The carefulstudy of theanatomicalstru ct n re ofanimals also demonstrated how circumstances had changed their character. Thu under the «kin of some smke* the\ found partially developed feet, indicatingthat at a formerperiod thisspecies ofsnake wasprobably alizard; that itsshort andclumsy legswere not suffi-cient for rapidpropulsion:that it had re-sorted to thewrigglingmovements asthe easiest andmost s pe edyand gradually disappeared. That \^(^— —Q: ? uo WHAT THE PEOGKESSIONISTS BELIEVE.
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Plate /r -KOlKril New kinds of vegetation came forth. certain reptiles, forming the habit of springing upon their prey,developed the wings. This is proven by the remains of birds, veryrecently found, which have teeth, showing the connection betweenthe reptile and the bird kingdom. These remains supply what haslong been regarded as the missing link. The winged reptile,under varying conditions, changed its character entirely; naturesupplied it with hair, and it became a bat, and under other con-ditions it acquired feathers. Xever having a chance to fly, it will be seen how a bat could changeto a mouse,which mightdevelop tearat, which mightlearn to burrowunder ground,and in long agescould change itscharactertothatof awoodchuck,and from that toa prairie-dog, whichlong periods oftime mightbring up to theintelligentshepherd orNewfoundland-dog. That the mouse and rat, in certain portions of the world, might,to avoid their enemies on the ground, take to the trees as a place ofabode—might le

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