PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEIilTINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



PAPERS. 



1- On the Pectoral and Pelvic Arches of the British 

 Museum Specimen of Arxhceoptert/n'. By Beanislav 

 Petronievics, Ph.D., and Arthur Smith Woodward, 

 LL.D., F.P.S., V.P.Z.S. 



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[Received ami Road November 21, 1916.] 

 (Plate I.*) 



Index. ™(^e '^^ 



Pectoral A veil |2 C'C'n -j ^* 



Pelvic Arch \3 ' CO |^ fOOfl 



Bibliography \^ '■*«W 



Introclactory. — _^ajis.^^*^ 



Some further preparation of the British Museum specimen of 

 ArchceojJteryx recently done by Mr. F. 0. Barlow, under the 

 direction of myself and Dr. Woodward, has resulted in the com- 

 plete uncovering of the right coracoid bone and the discovery of 

 the pubes. The work was undertaken at my request after I 

 had convinced myself, by a prolonged study of this specimen in 

 connection with Dames' two memoirs on the Berlin Archceopteryx, 

 that the bones in question must exist buried in the limestone 

 matrix. On the results I have prepared an exhaustive paper, 

 which I hope to publish later ; but the following preliminary 



* For explanation of the Plate see p. 6. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. — 1917, No. I. 1 



