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quoted, may be briefly condensed as follows : In the year 1889 

 Professor Seeley visited Cape Colony, and examined the Museums 

 of Cape Town and Graham's Town, with a view to studying such 

 remains of the creature as were then known; but almost every 

 specimen of real interest had already been sent to the British 



FIG. 33. Parts of skeleton of Dimetrodon incisivus, from Permian strata, 

 Texas. About \ natural size. (After Cope.) See p. 118. 



Museum. He succeeded in unearthing, in the year 1889, in the 

 Karoo rocks, the most valuable specimen shown in Fig. 34. 



There is probably no other South African fossil reptile in 

 which the teeth are developed to the same extent in rows on the 

 palate. Three rows of scutes, or bony scales, appear to have 

 extended down the middle of the back, but the restoration by 

 Professor Amalitzky (Plate XII.) shows many more. Some of 



