fHE GREAT PISH-LIZARDS 75 
had been left, even for a few hours, exposed to putrification 
and the attacks of fishes at the bottom of the sea, we should 
not now find their remains so completely preserved that often 
scarcely a single bone has been moved from its right place. 
What was the exact nature of this operation is at present a 
matter of doubt. 
1 Just before going to press comes news of another most interesting find near 
Wiirtemberg of a small Ichthyosaur showing the whole of the skin on one side. 
See Lilustrated London News, Jan. 1st, 1910. 
