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from the same formation. Three new species fall to Huxley's 

 AcaniJiopliolis, one of the Dinosaurs. Macrosaurus is a new Dinosaur. 

 Four new species are added to the Ichthyosaurs. There is a new 

 species of Crocodile ; seven new Plesiosaurs ; three new Steneosaurs. 

 A new Chelonian genus {lihinochehjs) involves one of Owen's Che- 

 lones, and has sixteen species besides ; and Tvacliydermochelys is 

 another new genus from this exceedingly rich deposit of the remains 

 of Mesozoic life. 



A new Iguanodon {PMUipsii) from the Wealden is indicated. A 

 new Pterodactylus and four new species of Pleurosternon are added 

 from Purbeck. The Kimmeridge Clay yields a new terrestrial 

 reptile (Gigantosaurus megcdonijai), two new Ichthyosaxirs, a new 

 Dakosaur, two new Plesiosaurs, and a new Chelonian (Enalio- 

 clielys) ; and i)ages 102-105 are devoted to a critical examination 

 of some vertebras from the Kimmeridge Clay, that lead Mr. Seeley 

 to refer Owen's FJesiosauriis hrachyspondylus and PL hrachydeirus 

 both to Plioscmrus. Lastly, the new genus Cryptosaurus and some 

 new sjiccies of Ichthyosaur, Pliosaur, Plesiosaur, and Steneosaur come 

 from the Oxford Clay. 



Great care has been taken in the preparation and production of 

 this valuable catalogi;e*. The Prefatory Note by the reverend Wood- 

 wardian Curator and Professor shows his hearty earnestness in his 

 work, — the pleasurable reminiscences of his collecting-days and 

 fellow workers in years gone by, — his no less cordial appreciation of 

 the researches and labours of the younger men who come and go with 

 the tides of university life, — and his warm recognition of Mr. Seeley's 

 zealous and patient study, some of the results of which are so con- 

 spicuously shown in this weU-arranged and richly suggestive 

 catalogue. 



Professor Sedgwick intimates that other catalogues are in progress, 

 and among them a more detailed catalogue of the Reptilian remains. 

 It is by such adjuncts that a museum is made of value to students ; 

 and already the Woodwardian Professor has made great progress to 

 this end, both with the catalogue before us and the magnificent work 

 by himself and M'Coy on the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Cam- 

 bridge Museum, published in 1852. 



Memoire stir Ics Ascoboles. Par M. E. Boudier. (Annales des 

 Sciences Naturelles, einquiemo se'rie, tome x, 1868.) 



M. Boudier has published an interesting account of the genus 

 Ascobolus in the ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles ' for 18G8. It is 

 the first time that that genus has been treated monographically, 

 with the accompaniment of carefully drawn coloured figures, as well 

 of the plants as seen by the unassisted eye, and slightly magnified, 

 as of their fructification viewed under the higher powers of the 

 microscope. M. Boudier traces the history of the genus from the 



* By printer's error, probably, jjrocceloi/s and jirocalian are misspelt at 

 pages 45 and 80. 



