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THE BATH OOLITE PERIOD. 



CHAP. 



be the work of many months in our Museum. There, it may be 

 hoped, for many an age, * dum stabit Capitolium' while Parliament 

 will let us alone the student of ancient life will pause before the 

 collected remains of perhaps the largest animal that ever walked 

 upon the earth, and congratulate himself that he lives in mammali- 

 ferous not megalosaurian days 



' Et grandia effossis mirabitur ossa sepulchris.' 



Diagram LXXXIV. Plan of the distribution of Bones of Ceteosaurus on the ex- 

 cavated oolite of ' Enslow Rocks/ at Kirtlington Station, north of Oxford, 1869-70. 



1. Femur, discovered in February 1869. 



2. Mass of bones in confusion. March 



17, 1870. 



3. Humerus. March 17, 1870. 



4. Vertebra and bones in confusion. 



March 17, 1870. 



5. Tibia. March 17, 1870. 



6. Pubis, March 21, 1870. 



7. Scapula. 



8. E-ibs, broken. 



9. Femur. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 



10. Humerus. March ai, 1870. 



11. Bones in confusion. May 16, 1870. 



12. Bones in confusion. do. 



13. Bones in confusion. do. 



14. Scapula. do. 



15. Coracoid. do. 



1 6. 17. Broken bones and vertebrae. 



May 1 6, 1870. 



1 8. Large vertebra. May 16, 1870. 

 //. A continuous fissure. 



