Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / Gowan Dawson

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Contents: Introduction: Cuvier's law of correlation -- Part I. Arrival, 1795-1839 : translations and appropriations. Correlation crosses the Channel ; Fragments of design -- Part II. Triumph, 1839-54 : bones, serials, and models. Discovering the dinornis ; Paleontology in parts ; Correlation at the Crystal Palace -- Part III. Overthrow, 1854-62 : scientific naturalists, popularizers, and cannibals. Correlation under siege ; The problems of popularization ; Unfortunate allies -- Part IV. Afterlife, 1862-1917 : missing links and hidden clues. Evolutionary modifications ; Prophecies of the past -- Epilogue: Ghosts of correlation