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likewise descriptions of Zeuglodon, Glyptodon, and Labi/rinthodon. 

 The seventh and last Yolume is especially memorable for Owen's 

 memoirs on the Theriomorphs from the Karroo formation of South 

 Africa. 



When the Quarterly Journal replaced the Transactions, the 

 luxurious quarto plates, so dear to the souls of palaeontologists, 

 necessarily gave way to a less attractive form of illustration. But 

 the advance of palaeontology by the Society was not perceptibly 

 checked in consequence of the change. Egerton continued for 

 nearly thirty years to furnish his contributions on fossil fishes. 

 Owen likewise maintained an almost uninterrupted supply of papers 

 on vertebrate paleontology, up to within five years of the end of 

 his long and strenuous life. Pew volumes of the Quarterly Journal 

 appeared without communications from him. His capacity for 

 work seemed to increase with age. From 1874, when he was 70 

 years of age, he never failed each year to send at least one paper, 

 sometimes as many as three, until in 1887, when he had reached 

 his eighty-third year, failing strength brought the long and splendid 

 series to a close. Among the claims which our Society has on the 

 respect of the scientific world, surely not the least is that it was 

 honoured by being the channel through which so much of the 

 labour of the greatest comparative anatomist of his time was given 

 to the world. 



Although Manteirs palaeontological work chiefly appeared in 

 independent publications, the first eight volumes of the Quarterly 

 Journal contain a number of his papers and _'in particular his 

 description of Telerpeton elginense, which is now a landmark in the 

 history of investigation among British Triassic rocks. Huxley's 

 earliest communication was made to the Society in 1856, and for 

 more than thirty years thereafter he communicated palaeontological 

 papers of the greatest value, besides giving three memorable 

 Presidential addresses. His studies in comparative anatomy took 

 a wide range over the invertebrate and vertebrate divisions of the 

 animal kingdom. His papers in the Quarterly Journal deal with 

 Upper Silurian Crustacea, the Devonian ostracoderms, the Carboni- 

 ferous labyrinthodonts, the Triassic and Liassic reptiles. From 

 the individual specimens he passed on to skilful and pregnant 

 generalizations as to the evidence yielded by the organisms towards 

 the history of evolution. All that he wrote was marked bj' the 

 strength and suggestiveness of an acute and original mind, and by 

 the felicity of expression which comes from wide literary culture. 



