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It was from this nodular Limestone also that he uncovered his 
“Baby Saurian” as he called it, the Pelagosaurus Moorei (Des- 
longchamps), the story of the finding of which he graphically told 
to the writer of the present notes; and the history given in a 
subsequent paper on the “ Middle and Upper Lias of the S. W. 
of England,” (Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, vol. xiil., 
p- 181, 1865-6)—one among the many instances of this man’s patient 
industry and indomitable perseverance. The way in which he 
described to me how he returned time after time to search over 
the quarried blocks from which he first picked up the broken bit 
containing a portion of the jaw, but all in vain; and then 
determining not to give up the search as hopeless, again returned 
and fitted it on to the unquarried and original bed in the section, 
and finally developed a new genus and species of Saurian ; and last, 
but not the least most instructive reward of his skill, displayed 
under one of the scutes, the last meal eaten previous to death 
(a Leptolepis in the lizards stomach), was a lesson never forgotten, 
but one too seldom followed ! 
His mind at this time was evidently bent on further new dis- 
ccoveries in his favourite beds. He laments the absence of any trace 
of Pterodactyles already found in Lower Lias beds elsewhere; or of 
birds, whose footstep-impressions existed in the New Red Sand- 
stone. The idea of the possibility of this discovery seems to have 
‘been cherished for a long time, until at the latter period of his life it 
issued in his too enthusiastic attempts to find traces of the latter 
in the Paleozoic rocks—but of this anon. In one instance, how- 
ever, his sanguine temperament met with its reward in subsequent 
years, alluding to the absence of Mammalia in these beds, though 
found in the Stonesfield Slate above, he writes, ‘I do not despair 
that these traces may some day be found to have their representa- 
tives in the Upper Lias.” 1t was his lot to find these traces even 
lower down and in older beds than in the higher flights of 
his fancy he could have supposed probable, for we see him with 
no unpardonable pride exhibiting at the Meeting of the Society in 
