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quoted, may be briefly condensed as follows :—In the year 1889 
Professor Seeley visited Cape Colony, and examined the Museums 
of Cape Town and Graham’s Town, with a view to studying such 
remains of the creature as were then known; but almost every 
specimen of real interest had already been sent to the British 
Fic. 33.—Parts of skeleton of Dimetrodon incisivus, from Permian strata, 
Texas. About + natural size. (After Cope.) See p. 118. 
Museum. He succeeded in unearthing, in the year 1889, in the 
Karoo rocks, the most valuable specimen shown in Fig. 34. 
There is probably no other South African fossil reptile in 
which the teeth are developed to the same extent in rows on the 
palate. Three rows of scutes, or bony scales, appear to have 
extended down the middle of the back, but the restoration by 
Professor Amalitzky (Plate XII.) shows many more. Some of 
