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had been left, even for a few hours, exposed to purification 

 and the attacks of fishes at the bottom of the sea, we should 

 not now find their remains so completely preserved that often 

 scarcely a single bone has been moved from its right place. 

 What was the exact nature of this operation is at present a 

 matter of doubt. 1 



1 Just before going to press comes news of another most interesting find near 

 Wiirtemberg of a small Ichthyosaur showing the whole of the skin on one side. 

 See Illustrated London News, Jan. 1st, 1910. 



