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to place Eli'phdft iHcriiiionalit \\\*m the pal:r<mtological records of the 

 county. It was of gigantic dimensions, as may lie assumed from the si/.e 

 of one of the incisors, which could not have been less than 11 feet in 

 length ; its girth at the base was 3 feet. The deposit, which consisted of 

 sand and flint, was covered over with a bed of glacial clay. He had no 

 doubt after further search they would find the remains of other mammals 

 which are usually associated with this elephant.* (The full account of 

 the Elephas meridional^ Bed will be found at p. 1 of the present 

 volume). 



Mr. Richardson had obtained from the Oxford clay near Weymouth 

 nearly the entire skeleton of a Plesiosaur, which, after some hesitation, Mr. 

 Lydekker decides it to be a new species, and gives it the specific name of 

 Cinwliosaunts richardsoni, Phillips. (An account of this will be found 

 under theWeymouth Meeting in the month of September). Mr. Richardson 

 was specially engaged in entomology, and had recently added to the list 

 of British moths a new species found in the county. Mr. Damon, of 

 Weymouth, had made an important addition to their chelonian 

 palaeontology by the recovery of the carapace of Pelobntochelys Blaldi, 

 Seeley, from the Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth, a genus founded by 

 Seeley upon a few fragments of a carapace from the same locality. A 

 crocodilian skull and parts of the snout in one of the cases of County 

 Museum, labelled Macrorhynchits, Meyer, had attracted his (the 

 President's) attention as the name finds no place in the British list of 

 fossils, and to obtain its true pakeontological place he had made a 

 comparison of it with other crocodilian remains. In the meantime Mr. 

 T. W. Hulke had made an examination of the roof of the mouth and 

 the position of the palate-nares, which showed it to belong to the 

 Teleosaurian group, partaking more of the Steneosanr character than of 

 Metriorhynchus (M. Deslonchamps' two divisions of the family). He 

 has provisionally named it Steneosaunis Purbeckensis. There were grave 

 grounds to fear that the Abbotsbury Swannery, in which every Dorset 

 person took a pride, was in danger through the claims of a few fishermen 

 to the right of entry upon that part of the Fleet which from time 

 immemorial had been reserved for the use of the swans. The case was 

 now under the consideration of the Law Courts, and he most earnestly 

 hoped Lord Ilchester would be able successfully to resist the claim and 

 maintain the rights which the owners of the Swannery had exercised for 

 more than five hundred years. Lastly, he thought every naturalist, 

 artist, and lover of the l>eautiful had ground for complaint in being 



* This formed Jthe subject of a communication to the Geological Society at Burlington 

 House on June 20th, 1889. 



