258 Transactions. — Zoology. 
Fig. 6. Shoulder-girdles of 
- Notornis (thick even line). 
Tribonyx (thin ,, 
omus (dotted line). 
orphyrio (broken ,, ). 
All drawn to a common length of trunk. 
er, cr’, er”, cr”, ventral ends of coracoids. 
sc, sc’, sc”, sc”, distal ends of scapula. 
Fig. 7. Furcule of 
Ocydr 
Pi 
A, i 
B. Tribonyz. 
Cc 
All two-third t l size. 
Fig. 8. Outline of pelvis of Notornis (even line) with that of Ocydromus superposed on 
the left side (dotted line), and that of Porphyrio on the right (broken line). 
Fig. 8a. Outline of left half of pelvis of Notornis (even line) and Tribonyz (dotted line). 
All drawn to a common length of sacrum and viewed from the dorsal aspect. 
zy, long axis of sacrum. 
il, ilium (pre-acetabular portion). 
” - 
pu, pu’, pu”, pu’, pubis. 
sa, sacrum 
(Figs. 3 to 8 from drawings by the author.) 
Art. XXXIII.—On a new Method of preserving Cartilaginous Skeletons and 
other soft Animal Structures. By T. Jerrery Parser, B.Sc. London, 
Professor of Biology in the University of Otago. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 21st June, 1881.*] 
On reading Professor Miall’s account of his method of employing glycerin? 
jelly instead of alcohol for the preservation of anatomical specimens,t it 
occurred to me that the more solid and less complicated structures might 
be preserved by thoroughly impregnating them with glycerine jelly and then 
allowing them to dry. The advantages of such a mode of preservation are 
obvious, since it allows of the handling of the specimens, and does away 
with the necessity for containing vessels, and the optical disadvantages of a 
surrounding medium. : 
I was able to make very few experiments on the subject before leaving 
England, but during the whole of the past year I have tested the metho? 
* T have partly re-written this paper so as to include additions and corrections uP *° 
the present time, February 18th, 1882.—T.J.P. 
oe t “Nature,” vol. xviii., p. 312. 
