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Rh College of Surgeons, a monument of the talent and skill of that eminent zoologist, who built it up, bone by bone.

SKELETON OF MYLODON

We can merely give the results of the Professor’s careful investigations. The Mylodon robustus was a Sloth having the size and proportions of a Rhinoceros, but with the limbs still more massive. The hind limbs, with the pelvis, and the tail are eminently colossal: and these were furnished with muscles, of immense power, and supplied with an extraordinary amount of nervous energy (indicated by the dimensions of the spinal tube).