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acquired for the nation by the strenuous efforts and liberality 
of the late Sir R. Owen (see preface). More recently a still finer 
specimen, with the head complete, has turned up, and this is now 
in the Berlin Museum (see Fig. 79). A very good idea of it may 
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Fic. 80.—Restoration of Arch@opteryz, the oldest known bird. By W. P. Pycraft. 
Skull of same. 
be gathered from the fine drawing presented by the late Professor 
Dames, which is to be seen at the Natural History Museum, also 
a cast. Some of those who first studied the creature’s anatomy 
took it for a reptile; and they may well have been puzzled by 
