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same year the skull of a Triassic Kuoxao^oVit {Oudenodon pithecops), 

 a small toothless reptile obtained by Mr. McKay, of East London, 

 from the Dicynodont Beds of Cape Colony. In 1881 Beeley gave 

 -an account and figure of the Berlin Archmopteryx, and discussed the 

 affinities of this second example of long-tailed Oolitic bird when 

 -compared with the original example in the British Museum (Natural 

 History), obtained in 1861. 



Henry Woodward described and figured Iguanodon Mantelli in 

 1885, and Iguanodon Bernissartensis in 1895; he gave in 1885 an 

 account of " Wingless Birds," recent and fossil, with their characters, 

 species, and distribution, both geographically and geologically. 



Arthur Smith Woodward gave, in 1885, an excellent summary 

 of the literature and nomenclature of British fossil Crocodilia, 

 with a table of genera and species. In 1891 he noticed a tooth 

 of an extinct Alligator from the Danian of Ciply, Belgium ; 

 a Microsaurian [Hylonomus Wildi) from the Burnley Coalfield, 

 Lancashire ; and noted the occurrence of Pseudotrionyx from the 

 Bracklesham Beds. In 1897 he figured and described Stereosternum 

 tamidum, a small lizard-like Triassic reptile from San Paulo, 

 Brazil, related in some undetermined way to the ancestry of the 

 Plesiosauria ; and a new specimen of Geraterpeton Galvani from 

 the Coal-measures, Kilkenny, Ireland. 



In 1887 G. A. Boulenger wrote, with R. Lydekker, some notes 

 on Chelonia from the Purbeck Beds and London Clay. 



R. Lydekker, in the same year, wrote on Crocodilians from 

 Hordwell and other species from the Wealden, etc. He also published 

 a note on Hylceochampsa. In 1888 he published notes on Tertiary 

 Lacertilia and Ophidia, and discussed their affinities ; he also wrote 

 on the classification of the Ichthyopterygia ; quoting from the 

 late Sir William Flower in favour of the restriction of generic 

 terras, and urging that their multiplication tends to make us lose sight 

 of the mutual relationship of allied forms, a view in which the author 

 then fully agreed, but subsequently he appeared rather to favour 

 the creation of new species, not merely in extinct, but in recent 

 forms of life. If a small fee for registration had to be paid for every 

 new name proposed to be introduced into currency, and a large one 

 imposed on the alteration of old and well-established names, in 

 order to replace them by some lost or unknown name unearthed 

 from the dusthole of the past, zoology would be greatly the gainer, 

 and much time might be saved with advantage and devoted to 

 really useful scientific work. Lydekker gave some interesting 

 notes on Sauropterygia from the Oxford and Kimmeridge Clay, from 

 the Leeds Collection at Eyebury. He does some useful ' lumping ' 

 of species established upon insufficient data, and mentions a delight- 

 ful case in which a newly described Plesiosaurus presented some 

 very striking peculiarities in its skeleton, arising from the simple 

 mistake made by the author, who had placed the head on the 

 extremity of the tail — the so-called cervicals being indistinguishable 

 from the caudals of other forms. E. Lydekker, in 1889, recorded 

 some remains of a new Coeluroid Dinosaur from the Wealden of 

 .the Isle of Wight, which he named Calamospondylus Foxi. 



