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No. 45. Igoanodon : f. 48. 



No. 46. Labyrinthodon : f. 49. 



No. 47. Ichthyosaurus : f. 50. 



Nos. 43 - 49 (figs. 46 - 50) are restorations of the Pterodactyle, Megalo" 

 sau7'us, Iguanodon^ Labyi'inthodon^ Ichthyosaurus^ Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus 

 and P. viacrocephalus . They are reduced (one inch to the foot) from the 

 gigantic models in the Crystal Palace, London ; constructed to scale by B. 

 Waterhouse Hawkins, F.G.S., F.L.S., from the form and jDroportions 

 of the fossil remains, and in strict accordance with the scientific deductions 

 of the British Cuvier, Professor Owen. Preliminary drawings, with careful 

 measurements of the originals in the Roj'al College of Surgeons, Britisli 

 Museum and Geological Society, were prepared, and sketch models made at 

 a fraction of the natural size, and submitted to the above high authority. 

 Clay models were then made of the natural size. 



To give an idea of these monster Saurians, Mr. Hawkins states that the 

 Iguanodon, as it now stands in the Crystal Palace, is composed of four iron 

 columns 9 feet long by 7 inches in diameter, 600 bricks, 1550 tiles, 38 

 casks of cement, 90 casks of broken stone, with 100 feet of iron hooping 

 and 20 feet of cube inch bar. It was modelled after the great Horsham 

 specimen ; and the mold was afterward converted into a salle a 'manger^ in 

 which Prof Owen, Prof. Forbes and twenty other scientific gentleman sat 

 down to dinner. The beautiful restorations in the Wadsworth Collection are 

 faithful copies, in miniature, of the gigantic group in London. Fos&il re- 



