"Eohippus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... back to five-toed creatures proved correct. One of the new links was indeed discovered before his lecture had passed through the press, and he was able to add in a footnote some details of the structure of the four-toed Eohippus from the lower Eocene beds. Further discoveries have connected these with the five-toed ancestors of the Tapirs, and there is the strongest reason to suppose that we now know as nearly as possible the line of ancestry of the horse back ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell |
