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company with Dr. Buckland, and after each interval found Mr. Mantell's 

 Museum enriched with new discoveries, some of his former theories 

 and conjectures confirmed, and new views opening upon his mind. Mr. 

 Greenough has pointed out to you how strikingly a recent discovery of 

 an assemblage of the bones of the Iguanodon grouped and imbedded in 

 one mass of rock, has shown the sagacity with which Mr. Mantell had 

 put together the disconnected remains when first discovered. All the 

 bones in that specimen are such as he had previously considered as 

 belonging to the Iguanodon, with no intermixture of those which he had 

 rejected as probably referable to other saurians." ' 



F. page 232. Baron Cuvier on the Iguanodon. For the reasons 

 stated in the text, I would beg the palaeontologist who may feel any 

 interest on this subject to peruse M. Cuvier's remarks on the teeth of 

 the Iguanodon, in " Ossemens Fossiles," tome v. pp. 351, 352. The only 

 other notice of the Iguanodon by this illustrious philosopher, is in the 

 edition of his " Discours sur les Revolutions de la Surface du Globe" 

 published in 1826. "Les sables ferrugineux places en Angleterre au- 

 dessous de la craie, contiennent en abondance des crocodiles, des tortues, 

 des me"galosaurus, et surtout un reptile qui offrait encore un caractere 

 tout particulier, celui d'user ces dents comme nos mammiferes herbivores. 

 C'est & M. Mantell, de Lewes en Sussex, que Ton doit la decouverte de 

 ce dernier animal, ainsi que des autres grands reptiles de ces sables 

 inferieurs & la craie : il 1'a nomme'e Iguanodon" In August 1830, I 

 submitted to Baron Cuvier, then in London, many teeth and bones from 

 Tilgate Forest, and was confirmed in my opinion as to the probable den- 

 tition, and structure of the maxillary organs, of the Iguanodon, by his 

 unqualified approval; and so much was his interest excited, that he 

 made arrangements to visit me at Lewes the following week ; but unfor- 

 tunately the revolution broke out at Paris, and M. Cuvier was sum- 

 moned from England : we never met again. 



G. page 280. Drawings of Wealden Reptiles presented to Professor 

 Owen. The Wollaston fund, awarded me with the medal by the Geo- 

 logical Society in 1835, amounting to between 201. and 30Z., was expended 

 on drawings (by Mr. Dinkel, now of 17, Upper King Street, Bloomsbury,) 

 of the principal bones of the Iguanodon, Hylaeosaurus, &c. in my collec- 

 tion, with a view to publication : the Maidstone Iguanodon, the large 

 specimen of Hylaeosaurus, and figures of both slabs of the Goniopholis, 

 (in Eoom III. Case A,) were of imperial 4to size; the remainder were 

 in 4to, and comprised more than one hundred [figures. In 1841, the 

 state of my health rendering it improbable that I should ever be able 

 to resume my scientific researches, I presented the whole of these 

 beautiful drawings to Professor Owen, who then contemplated a work 

 on British Fossil Reptiles. A plate of reptilian teeth in Professor Owen's 

 " Odontography," and the two lithographs of the Maidstone Iguanodon 



1 These remarks refer to the Maidstone Iguanodon, then recently 

 discovered. The Members of the " Palceontographical Society'" are 

 requested to compare the above statement with that given in the last 

 " Monograph on Cretaceous Reptiles." 



