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Mr. Koch in the exhumation of those bones. From him and other 

 persons T learn that the main body of the vertebrae which entered 

 into the skeleton exhibited in the United States by Mr. Koch in 

 1845 under the name of Hydrarchos were procured in Washington 

 county, Alabama, at a place fifteen miles distant in a direct line 

 from the locality where the head was dug up. 



1 have information of about forty other places where separate 

 bones of this huge animal have been met with in Clarke and Wash- 

 ington counties alone. From several of these I have seen the bones, 

 and they are in so perfect a condition and so bulky, so distant the 

 one from the other, and must have been so difficult to transport, 

 that 1 can hardly doubt their having belonged to forty distinct in- 

 dividuals. 



3. 071 some Footmarks and other Impressions observed in the New 

 Red Sandstone Quarries of Storton, near Liverpool. By 

 John Cunningham, Esq., F.G.S. 



The author, in a communication dated oTanuary 5, 1846, and ad- 

 dressed to Dr. Buckland, observes, " the small slab which T here- 

 with send* contains an impression in intaglio of w^hat I conceive 

 to be the footprints of small birds. They are the only impressions 

 having a resemblance to those of birds that 1 have hitherto been 

 able to detect among the numerous indications of reptiles associated 

 with them in one of the beds of the Storton quarries, and if they 

 should prove to be Ornithichnites, I do not despair of finding the 

 larger impressions in some of the strata of Storton Hill ; but the 

 other quarries around Liverpool are quite barren of all impres- 

 sions." 



In a further communication made on the 30th of March, Mr. 

 Cunningham states, " I am glad to inform you, that on Saturday 

 last, being at Storton, I discovered on the face of a slab three most 

 distinct indurated impressions of a bird's feet of pretty large size, 

 measuring two inches and a half in length. The feet had three toes; 

 the intermediate space between two impressions is ten inches, and 

 so far as they go, the impressions are right and left. There can, I 

 think, be no doubt of the animal that produced them having been a 

 bird, and probably one of the Grallce. There was no appearance 

 of a web between the toes. 



" This discovery I consider important, as proving beyond a doubt 

 the existence of warm-blooded animals in this country during the 

 period of the deposit of the New red sandstone. I have long looked 

 for something of the kind, and am now hoping to discover some of 

 the large Ornithichnites." 



* This slab was presented by Mr. Cunningham to the Geologic Society. 



