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large coi.rolites in the sluile which is associated with tho sa.Kl.slo.u- of 



Craigleith quarry.* 



Some remarks were made ui)oii the remains of saurian animals, 

 which had been more recently obtained for the IL.yal Society's Mu- 

 seum from the quarry of Burdiehouse, chiefly through the exertions 

 of Mr Robison, and to which new acquisitions are daily adding. 

 Amon- these, fl.ree distinct kinds seem to have been ascertained. 

 The lar-er animal, the author thinks, rather approaches in cha- 

 racter to" the Steneosaurusof M. St Hilaire ; but he suspects, at the 

 same time, that such marks of difference exist, as must eventually 

 authorize the assignment of the Edinburgh .uv^o, to an entirely new 

 genus. The other remains were supposed to resemble most those of 

 the two kinds of Pterodactyli described by Cuvier. Bones also which 

 appear to have belonged to a Trionyx have been discovered. 



Lastly, the author adverted to prior notices of the actual discovery 

 of saurian remains in the carboniferous group of rocks. Whitehurst, 

 who wrote in the year 1778, and Pilkington, in his history of Derby- 

 shire 1789, have each spoken of the remains of crocodiles and alligators 

 which had been discovered in the limestone of Ashford in Derbyshire, 

 from which locality the author has in his possession a specimen of fresh- 

 water limestone, like that of Burdiehouse, containing plants. Four 

 years afterwards, namely, in the year J 793, saurian remains like those 

 of Burdiehouse, found in a bed above a seam of coal, were actually 

 figured by the Rev. Mr Ure in his History of Rutherglen near Glas- 

 ..ow, though he was not aware of their real character. And very hitely 

 the discovery of a saurian vertebra in the mountain-limestone of Nor- 

 thumberland, by the Rev. Charles Vernon Harcourt, has been record- 

 ed by INIr Lyell in his Principles of Geology. 



The author, in concluding, expressed his reluctance to allude to 

 other occasional notices which had been published, regarding the dis- 

 covery of similar remains, on account of their having been mistaken 

 for those of fish. But, if found necessary, he will complete the 

 history. 



2. Account of the Dissection of a Young Rorqual, or short 



Whalebone Whale, (the Bala;na Rostrataof Fabricius) ; 



with a few Observations on the Anatomy of the Foetal 



Mysticetus. By Dr Knox. 



In February 1834, a young Whalebone Whale was taken near the 



• Dr Fleming has, within these few days, found, at Clackmannan, an inter- 

 esting relic, exhibiting large scales in a natural state of juxta-position (not un- 

 l)iicated), which will, of course, be described by himselt; 



