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attention to the identity of one of its cervical vertebrae with the 

 vertebra from the Kraai liiver, and the label on the exhibited specimen, 

 giving the name, was turned down at my request. My responsibility 

 for reference of the specimen to JEushelesaurus ceased. There is no 

 evidence for making the correction other than that in my possession 

 and under description. Hence no publication seemed necessary in 

 anticipation of final account of the animal. 



In his postscript Dr. Smith Woodward states that "Dr. E.. Broom 

 has described similar vertebrae from the Upper Beaufort Beds of the 

 Karoo Formation under the new generic name of Erythrosuchus.''^ 

 This scarcely represents the facts. If my new unpublished skeleton is 

 omitted, there is no evidence to connect the Kraai River vertebra with 

 Dr. Broom's types. Dr. Broom states that in Enjthrosuchus " there is- 

 one well-preserved vertebra, which is either lower cervical or upper 

 dorsal," compared to the dorsal vertebra of a carnivorous Dinosaur, 

 and said to show that the rib was single-headed. On comparison of 

 this vertebra (Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. v, pt. 4, figs. 8, 9) with the 

 Kraai Biver fossil, it is difficult to recognise any near approximation. 

 There is no room for doubt, for the Trustees of the South African 

 Museum have given me, with the assistance of the Geological Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum, the opportunity of studying Dr. Broom's 

 Erythrosuchus in the description of my own materials, 



Pinally, the postscript remarks, ' 'According to Dr. Broom's description 

 this reptile is not a Dinosaur, but exhibits many resemblances both to 

 Belodonts and to Anomodonts." Dr. Broom does not use the term 

 Dinosauria, but refers his animal to the Phytosauria, because the ilium 

 is like that of Belodon, and the other bones are said to be somewhat like ; 

 but he exhibits caution in not speculating on the nature of the skull. 

 In 1892 (Quart. Journ. Greol. Soc, vol. xlviii, p. 189) I published the 

 view that Belodon is a primitive Cetiosaurian, to be classed under the 

 Saurischia. Therefore it makes little difference in my estimate of the 

 wider ordinal affinities of the Kraai River fossil whether it is referred 

 to the typical Saurischian Euslcelesaurus or transferred to the sub- 

 division Phytosauria and named Erythro melius. It is stated (Phil. 

 Trans. Roy. Soc, 1892, pt. B, p. 346) that " Saurischian Dinosaur 

 reptiles alone among Reptilia approximate towards the Anomodont 

 types in pelvic characters," and I am not aware that these views have 

 been elaborated by any subsequent writer, though I have repeatedly 

 referred to the affinities of the two groups (I.e., p. 366; 1895, pt. B, 

 pp. 41, 112, etc.). H. G. Seeley. 



CEETACEOUS AND EOCEXE DEPOSITS OFF THE SOUTH-WEST 

 OF THE BKITISH ISLES. 



SiE, — The publication of the remarkable papers by Mr. L. R, 

 Crawshay and Mr. Pt. Hansford Worth, on the rocks dredged from the 

 English Channel since 1906 (Journ. Marine Biol. Assoc, vol. viii, 

 jS'o. 2, May, 1908), marks a very distinct step forward in our know- 

 ledge of submarine stratigraphy. It seems of interest to state that the 

 Cretaceous specimens therein recorded and illustrated are paralleled by 



