THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 



No. 83. NOVEMBER 1894. 



XLI. — On Euskelesaurus Brownii (Huxley). 

 By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.* 



Evskelesaubus Bbownii was discovered by Mr. Alfred Brown, 

 of Aliwal North, at Barnard's Spruit, Ward, 15 miles south 

 of Aliwal North. The remains were collected with some 

 difficulty at intervals, and three separate collections of bones 

 of the same animal were sent by Mr. Brown to Europe before 

 the further specimens in his possession were intrusted to me 

 in September 1889. Mr. Brown assures me that other por- 

 tions of the animal are still in the rock. He at first intended 

 his fossil for the National Museum, but forwarded it to 

 Sir R. I. Murchison, not knowing that the Geological 

 Society, Geological Survey, and Geological Department of 

 the British Museum were distinct institutions. The first 

 collection was the subject of a memoir by Professor Huxley 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 1, 1867). It gives an 

 elaborate discussion of the characters of the femora, which in 

 many ways resembled Megalosaurus. The tibia, fibula, and 

 tarsus are described. The collection included other bones, 

 some of which are recorded as fragments of two very large 

 flat bones, the large metatarsal and metacarpal, and fragments 

 which were not determined. Unfortunately no figure was 

 given of any of these specimens, and some of the less im- 

 portant I have not seen. A second collection was sent to 



* Read before the Geological Society as Part 7 of " Contributions to 

 Knowledge of Saurischia," June 22, 1894. 



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