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hardly belong to it, as the trunk- vertebrse are described as being of 

 a totally different structure. 



DiscassiON. — Mr. Boyd Dawkins, who had recently visited Oxford, stated that he 

 had there examined the remains referred to. There was, however, no tooth found 

 with them of a character to show the nature of the food on which the animal sub- 

 sisted. But one of his students had lately found in the same pit that had afforded 

 the remains, a tooth corresponding in its principal characters with those of Iguanodon, 

 with which, therefore, the Getiosaurus seemed to be allied, so that it was probably a 

 vegetable feeder. Mr. J. Parker had lately procured from the Kimmeridge Clay a 

 number of Saurian remains, and among them were some vertebrae of Mcgalosaurus, to 

 which were articulated others presenting distinctly the characters of Streptospondylus. 

 He thought that probably many of the supposed Streptospondylian vertebrae might 

 prove to belong to the cervical region of Dinosaurians. 



Mr. Seeley disputed the attribution to Cetiosaurus of the vertebrs described, and 

 questioned whether the remains at Oxford might not be assigned to Streptospondylus 

 or Ornithopsis. The depressions in the vertebras, which might be connected with the 

 extension of the air-cells of the lungs, did not exist in Cetiosaurus, but were to be 

 found in Megalosaunis. As to the premaxillary tooth mentioned by Mr. Dawkins, 

 he was uncertain whether it should be referred to what he considered as Cetiosaurus 

 proper, or to the Oxford reptile. 



Mr. Hulke replied, pointing out that, since the determination of the Oxford reptile , 

 as Cetiosaurus, numerous other remains of the same species has been discovered which 

 had added materially to the basis of classification. 



II. — December 6, 1871. — Joseph Prestwich, Esq., President, in 

 the Chair. Fourteen new Fellows were elected, and Prof. Giovanni 

 Capellini, of Bologna, was made a Foreign Correspondent of the 

 Society. 



The President announced the bequest to the Geological Society on 

 the part of the late Sir Eoderick Mui-chison, of the sum of £1000, 

 to be invested in the name of the Society or of its Trustees, under 

 the title of the " Murchison Geological Fund," and its proceeds to 

 be annually devoted by the Council to the encouragement or as- 

 sistance of geological investigations. The donation of the proceeds 

 of the Fund was directed by the Testator to be accompanied by a 

 bronze copy of the Murchison Medal. 



The Secretary, Mr. Evans, having read the extracts from the Will 

 of the late Sir Eoderick Murchison relating to this bequest, 



Sir Philip Egerton proposed the following resolution : — That this 

 Meeting, having heard the announcement of the bequest made to the 

 Geological Society by the late Sir Eoderick Murchison, desire to 

 record their deep sense of the loss the Society has sustained by his 

 death, and their grateful appreciation of the liberal bequest for the 

 advancement of Geological Knowledge placed at their disposal by 

 their late distinguished Fellow. 



Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys seconded this proposition, which was carried 

 unanimously. 



The following communications were read: — 1. "On the presence 

 of a raised beach on Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth, and on the 

 occurrence of a Flint Implement at Downton." By Joseph Prest- 

 wich, Esq., F.E.S., President. 



The author noticed a section observed by him in a pit ten miles 

 westward of Bourne Common and five miles inland in a lane on the 

 north side of Last Cams Wood. It is situated at an elevation of 



