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saurus, to which were articulated others presenting distinctly the 

 characters of Streptospondylus. He thought that most of the Strep- 

 tospondylian vertebrae might prove to belong to the cervical region 

 of Dinosaurians. 



Mr. Seelet disputed the attribution to Cetiosaurus of the vertebrae 

 described, and questioned whether the remains at Oxford might 

 not be assigned to Streptosjwndylus or Ornithopsis. The depressions 

 in the vertebrae, 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 Megalosaums. As to the tooth mentioned by Mr. 

 Dawkins, he was uncertain whether it should be referred to what he 

 considered Cetiosaurus proper or to the Oxford reptile. 



Mr. Htjlke replied, pointing out that, since the determination of 

 the Oxford reptile as Cetiosaurus, numerous other remains of the 

 same species had been discovered which had added materially to the 

 basis of classification. 



December 6, 1871. 



John Richard Burton, Esq., B.A. (Lend.), Head Master of Bewdley 

 Grammar School; the E.ev, J. Cater, March, Cambridgeshire ; Richard 

 Daintree, Esq., Government Geologist of Queensland ; John Davies 

 Enys, Esq., of Trilissick, Canterbury, JSTew Zealand ; Henry George 

 Bonavia Hunt, Esq., 4 Garden Court, Temple, E.C. ; Capt. Alex- 

 ander Hadden Hutchinson, R.A., South Camp, Aldershott ; Joseph 

 Coventry I'Anson, Esq., Darlington; James T. B. Ives, Esq., 30 

 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, W. ; Albert George Kitching, 

 Esq., Enfield ; Leonard Lyell, Esq., 42 Regent's Park Road, N.W. ; 

 John Earl Hunter Peyton, Esq., E.R.A.S., 108 Marina, St. Leo- 

 nard's-on-Sea; Sydney B. J. Skertchly, Esq., of the Geological 

 Survey of England and Wales, 13 Clonbrock Road, Stoke Newing- 

 ton, JN". ; and Henry Walker, Esq., 100 Elect Street, E.G., were 

 elected Fellows, and Prof. Giovanni Capellini, of Bologna, a Foreign 

 Correspondent of the Society. 



The Peesibejj^t announced the bequest to the Geological Society, 

 on the part of the late Sir Roderick Murchison, 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," audits proceeds to be 

 annually devoted by the Council to the encouragement or assistance 

 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 Roderick 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 Roderick Murchison, desire to 

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

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



