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No trace of the head or teeth was discovered, though some of the smallest 

 vertebra— if they are cervical and belong to the same animal, as apparently they 

 do — must have been very near the head. Nor were either of the great limb 

 bones, the femur or humerus, found, though there are a considerable number of 

 the smaller bones of the paddles— the phalanges, and metatarsal or metacarpal 

 bones. Two of the bones of the pelvic girdle were found cemented together, an 

 ischium and a pubis, measuring respectively 9fin. X 7|in., and lOin. X 7iin. 

 Another pubis is almost complete, and there is a portion of another bone which 

 may be the other ischium. A pair of bones measuring Gfin. in length, arc 

 pronounced by the Jermyn Street authorities to be the iliac bones, though they 

 seem very small compared with the pelvic boues. Of the vertebraj there are 

 forty-seven in all, varying in diameter from l|iu. to about S.jin. Arranged in 

 order the column measures about 7ft. The majority of them are dorsal and 

 cervical, with a few caudal — these latter mostly very rotten and crushed. 



A good many fragments of the vertebral process occurred and some few have 

 been put together. 



Mr. W. Cunnington, F.G.S., has been good enough to submit some of the 

 representative bones to the authorities of the Jermyn Street Museum, with the 

 result that they pronounce the animal to have been a young specimen, and 

 consequently difficult to identify with certainty. It is undoubtedly a Pleiosaurus, 

 but whether P. Macromerus, or P. Brachydcirus is doubtful ; probably it is 

 the former. 



Although it is quite a baby in size compared with the monsters of more mature 

 age whose bones sometimes turn up, and although as I have said it is by no 

 means a complete skeleton, still, considering that it comes from the Kimeridge 

 Clay, a bed in which the complete skeletons so numerously found in the lias are 

 almost entirely unknown, it is a specimen which we may justly pride ourselves 

 on, as being a notable addition to the Society's collection. 



E. H. GODDAKD. 



Lt.-Col. Jolm Ernie Money Kyrle. B. 1812. Educated at Winchester, 

 Joined 32nd Regiment in 1832, served in Canadian Rebellion, 1836—38. 

 J.P. and D.L. for Herefordshire. Married, first, Harriet Louisa, d. Charles 

 Sutton, of Hertingfordbury, and secondly, Ada, d. of John Symons. He 

 died October 29th, 1894. He was the owner of the Kyrle property at 

 Much Marcle, in Herefordshire, and of the Money estate of Whetham, near 

 Calne, Wilts. He was buried at Much Marcle. Obituary notice in Devizes 

 Gazette, November 1st, 1894. 



