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extrcmity of a small .jicnmsxila on thc E. coast of Princc Pa- 

 trick Island. In his »licminisccnccs of Icc travel in soarch 

 of Sir J. Franklin», — ef. Dublin R. S. Jnl. 1856—1857. 

 Vol. 1. p. 223, in whicli this fmd is mentioned — Capt. Mc. 

 Clintock says: 



»Point Wilkie appcared to be an isolatcd patch of Liassic 

 agc resting upon carboniferons sandstones with bands of ebert 

 of tbe some age as tbe limestones and sandstones of Melville 

 Island.» 



Tbis witb many otber geologieal speeimens he was un- 

 fortiinately afterwards obliged to abandon. 



In »Appendix N:o 4 to tbe »Fäte of Sir J. Franklin.» 

 By- Mc. Clintock,» pag. 391 it is related tbat: 



»Capt. Sberard Osborn also found a broken vertebra of 

 an Ichtbyosauriis 150 feet up Rendez-Voiis Hill, tbe N. AV. 

 extremity of Bathurst Island.» 



Prof. Nordenskiöld's discovery of Icbtbyosaiirian remains 

 at Saurie Hook enlarges tbe distribution of tbe genus in tbese 

 bigb latitudes more tbau 1° N. and extends it from Loug. 

 117° 20' AV. to Long. 15° 30' E. 



To I. Nordenskiöldii may probably be referred an im- 

 pression of eigbt vertebra^ in a sbale slab labelled (5) and 

 another series in a slab marked (6). 



A small snout, reptlllan? — incertae sedis — 

 (of I. Nordenskiöldii?) 



Two fragments, labelled (123) (122) and bearing printed 

 labels »Is fj. Saurie Hk.», form one of tbe most interestlng 

 fossils in tbe collection — part of a slender snout broken in 

 scveral pieces wbich joined togetber give a lengtb of 6,8 incbes. 

 The extreme tip of tbe snout is missing, and its base witb 

 small part of tbe skull connected witb it are crushed quite 

 flat, tbeir surfaces, particularly tbe upper one, are weatbered 

 and very defaced, and few vestiges of sutures are discerniblc. 



The snout is principally composed of two large bones, 

 the palatine processes of wbich, in tbe före part, are in mutual 

 contact, tbeir swollen inner edges touch each otber. 



These large bones contain all the teeth wbich are now 

 present, and these probably comprise tbe greatest part of the 

 entire dental series. Posteriorly, on the uppcl- surface of the 



