Chapter 474
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We read in De Mirville’s “Mémoire â l’Académie” (ii. 431) of the “naïve astonishment of Geoffroy St. Hilaire, when M. de Paravey showed to him, in some old Chinese works and Babylonian tiles, dragons, ... ornithorhynchuses and saurians (aquatic animals found only in Australia), etc., extinct animals that he had thought unknown on earth ... till his own day.”