On the Zeiijlodoii. 153 



This conclusion is supported by the testimony of those wlio 

 were eye-witnesses of, or familiar with, the exhumation of the 

 remains. Dr Lister, who resides in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of the locality where the bones were found, but was 

 not an eye-witness of the exhumation, says : — " They were 

 not lying in their natural position, so as to constitute an 

 unbroken series, but were scattered hei'e and there ; others 

 were procured in Clark county, twenty miles distant." 



Mr Lyell, whose accuracy and love of truth no one will 

 question, travelled over the region of the Zeuglodon, and, in 

 a letter to Professor Silliman jun., states as follows : — 



" Part of the head of the Zeuglodon and vertebrae, ex- 

 tending to a length of thirty feet (the Hydi'archos was one 

 hundred and fourteen feet), were procured by Mr Koch, in 

 1845, at a place which I visited, four and a half miles south- 

 west of Clarkville, Ala., in company with Mr Pickett, who 

 assisted in the exhumation made by Mr Koch ; but the main 

 body of the vertebras (as I learn from the same gentleman 

 and other persons) which entered into the skeleton exhibited 

 in the United States under the name of Hydrarchos, were 

 procured in "Washington county, fifteen miles distant, in a 

 direct line from the place where the head was discovered." 

 (See American Journal of Science, vol. i.,p. 312, Nerv Series.) 



The editors insert as a note to the preceding, the follow- 

 ing :— 



" Another correspondent, S. G. Houston, Esq., gave us a 

 confirmation of Mr Lyell's statement. Mr H. says that the 

 fossils Avere found, a bone here and a bone there, scattered 

 over a space of twenty-five miles." 



Mr Koch has not brought forward the testimony of a single 

 eye-witness in corroboration of his own statement. 



II. Mr Koch maintained that the bones were those of a 

 Reptile (" Sea Serpent"). Dr Gescheidt rejected the idea 

 that they were those of a serpent, but maintained their rep- 

 tilian character, " a connecting link between Saurians and 

 Mammalia." Carus of Dresden, in his I'ecently published 

 memoir, entertains the reptilian view, and, in accordance 

 witli it, has given an ideal diagram of a restored head, in 

 which the reptilian character is strongly portrayed. 



On the other hand, it was maintained that it had no clia- 



