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1862. 



This year was noteworthy for the acquisition of the Archae- 

 opteryx, which was purchased, with a large series of fossil fishes 

 and reptiles from the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen, Bavaria, 

 from Dr. Haberlein of Pappenheim. 



A gigantic tooth of Pliosaurus grandis, from the Kimmeridge 

 Clay of Dorset, was the first of a long series of small donations 

 from Mr. J. C. Mansel (afterwards Mansel-Pleydell). Footprints 

 of Rhynchosaurus on Triassic sandstone from Brewood, South 

 Staffordshire, were presented by Rev. Henry Housrnan. Tri- 

 dactyle footprints from the Trias of Connecticut, U.S.A., were 

 presented by Prof. E. Hitchcock. 



The first important remains of Labyrinthodonts, Capitosaurus 

 and Treniatosaurus, from the Trias of Germany, were acquired by 

 purchase. A plaster cast of two associated vertebrne from the 

 Coal Measures of Nova Scotia, named Eosaurus acadianus by 

 Prof. O. C. Marsh, of Yale University, was presented by the 

 discoverer his first benefaction to the Museum. 



Among Invertebrata may be mentioned a new Hippurite 

 (Barrettia monilifera) from the Cretaceous of Jamaica, presented 

 by the discoverer, Mr. Lucas Barrett ; also many purchases, 

 including Pterygotus from the Upper Silurian of Lanarkshire, 

 Crustacean remains from the English Lias, Gault, and Green- 

 sand, many other Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Jurassic fossils from 

 England, Asteroidea from the Lower Ludlow of Herefordshire, 

 and a series of Silurian fossils from Ohio and Indiana, U.S.A. 



Many Carboniferous plants from Airdrie and Burdiehouse 

 were also purchased. 



Total number of acquisitions, 3144. 



1863. 



An extensive selection from the Saull Collection was purchased 

 from the Trustees of the Metropolitan Institution. Besides 

 several important remains of fossil reptiles described by Prof. 

 Owen, it comprised some of the invertebrate fossils described in 

 Sowerby's " Mineral Conchology." 



Dr. J. W. (afterwards Sir William) Dawson, of McGill 

 University, Montreal, presented a series of specimens to illustrate 

 his recent discoveries of land-shells and small land-reptiles (or 

 amphibians) in the decayed erect tree-trunks of the South 

 Joggins Coal Measures, Nova Scotia. 



