190 M. Von So/ntnering on lite [Sept. 



discover the most striking resemblance (independent of size) 

 between these two specimens, as well in the general configura- 

 tion as in the details ; but that the one now exhibited, which is 

 fortunately less imperfect, is of greater assistance in determining 

 the real form of the head of this extraordinary animal than the 

 so justly celebrated fragment deposited in the Museum at Paris, 

 although that is invaluable on account of its magnitude. Among 

 other parts wanting in that specimen, both the forehead and snout, 

 as likewise the circle surrounding the cavity of the eye, may be 

 admirably supplied from those parts as exhibited in our animal. 

 Our animal likewise contains 17 teeth in the upper jaw, whereas 

 that has only nine. 



In fact, the general form of our animal bears a strong resem- 

 blance to that of the other, as may be seen by referring to Plate 

 LI, of St. Fond. And this perfect resemblance in the contour of 

 both specimens furnishes at the same time an incontrovertible 

 proof that our animal was very young, and had hardly attained a 

 quarter of its size, as this admirable engraving of St. Fond's is 

 three-fourths less than the original, and is yet covered as nearly 

 as may be, by it, or, at least, by the exact representation which 

 we have given of it. 



The rest of our fossil fragments are likewise particularly 

 important, as they exhibit such portions of the bones of the 

 pelvis and thigh as were, if I remember right, hitherto quite 

 unknown. Even M. Cuvier, who possesses by far the greater 

 portion of the bones of the Maastricht animal, said in 1808 that 

 no part of the legs had been preserved. 



From what has been said both here and in the 21st and 22d 

 paragraphs of my treatise on the Crocodilus Pricus, the following 

 results appear to arise : the large gigantic lacerta, which has 

 been discovered on St. Peter's Hill, at Maestricht, and at 

 Rozzo, in the territory of Vicenza, was, during the first ages of 

 the world, an inhabitant of a district belonging to the kingdom 

 of Bavaria, where it was a neighbour of the Crocodilus Priscus. 

 Consequently this race of animals were to be found throughout 

 a tract of country extending from Holland, through Bavaria, to 

 the Vicentine ; so that our individual was here in the very centre 

 of the district assigned to it; and, therefore, was not so restricted 

 as to space as has been hitherto supposed.* 



For aught that I know to the contrary, these fragments are 



The seventh exhibits only the palate. Van Marum, Mem. de la Soc. Teylerienne, 

 an. 1790, PI. «. 



The eighth represents the hinder part of the lower jaw after a drawing by Camper, 

 the father, in Adrian Camper's Journal de Physique, an. ix. 1800, torn. li. 



The ninth is by Cuvier, in the Annales du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. torn. xii. PI. 19, and 

 is, as I have circumstantially stated in my treatise on the Crocodilus Priscus, sect. 21, 

 the most instructive of any. 



The tenth is to be found in Parkinson's Organic Remains of a former World, PI. 19, 



fig. 1. 



• On n'en a decouvert, jusqu' ici (1808), les ossemens que dans un seul canton assez 

 peu etenda. 



