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from Wealden strata iii the Isle of Wight, which has been the 

 subject of careful study by Mr. Hulke and Professor Seeley. 

 Their conclusions, based on the examination of separate portions 

 of the skeleton (such as vertebrse), have been singularly con- 

 firmed by the discovery of Brontosaurus. 



In Ornithopsis the vertebrae of the neck and back, though of 

 great size, were remarkably light, and yet of great strength. One 

 of the vertebrae of the back had a body, or centrum, ten inches 

 long. Hoplosaurus and Pelorosaurus were evidently reptiles closely 

 allied to the above types ; but at present are so imperfectly known 

 that we need not consider them here. On a recent visit to Berlin 

 the writer was informed by Professor Brauer of the discovery in 

 German East Africa of immense quantities of Dinosaurian bones. 

 Among these one femur exceeds in length that of Diplodocus by 

 several inches. 





