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In small Table-case 17a are cervical vertebrae of Elephants dredged off the East 

 coast, and teeth of" Mammoth from Norfolk. 



Table-case 18 contains a fine series of Molars of Mammoth, E. primigeidits, dredged 

 up off the Dogger Bank, North Sea; and bones of the feet of a very large Elephant 

 from the Norfolk Coast. 



Table-case 19 is occupied by molars of Mammoth from various British localities, from 

 Brighton, Kettering, Fenny Stratford, from near London ; also from Hesse-Darmstadt 

 and from Arctic America. 



In small Table-case 19a are remains of Elephants dredged up off the East Coast. 



Table-case 20 contains remains of the pigmy Elephant from Malta; together Avith 

 those of Elephas antiquus from Clacton, and Grays, Essex ; and from Sussex and Norfolk. 



Table-case 21 is filled with the molar teeth, &c., of Elephas meridionalis, from the 

 Forest Bed, Norfolk coast ; and sections of teeth of fossil Indian Elephants from the 

 Siwalik Hills, India. 



In the small Table-case 21a are jilaced several tusks of Fossil Elephants. 



In Table-case 22 are the bones of the fore and hind feet of species of fossil Elephants 

 from the Newer Miocene deposits of the Siwalik Hills, India. 



Table-case 23 contains a large series of the molar teeth of Mastodon from the English 

 Crag, from the Miocene ol Darmstadt; from the Garonne, and from Sansan in France; 

 from Bigbone-lick, Kentucky ; and from the Siwalik Hills, India. 



Table-case 24 is occupied by molar teeth of Dinotherium from the Garonne, from 

 Hesse- Darmstadt, from Perim Island, and other Indian localities. Also an interesting 

 series of fossil remains of Rodentia, comprising two gigantic types of Beaver; 

 Trogontherium Cuvieri, from the Norfolk Forest Bed, and Cw-toroides Ohioeitsis, from 

 Newer Tertiary deposits of New York, U. S. N. America; numerous examples and an 

 almost entire skeleton of the European Beavei", from the valley of the Lea, and from 

 the Cambridgeshire (ens; a gigantic dormouse, Myoxus melitensis, from Malta; Lagomys 

 and Speimophilus from the Post-Tertiary deposits of the Thames Valley, &c. This 

 case likewise contains the skull and other remains of Typnlherium cristatum, a remarkable 

 Kodent from Buenos Ayres. 



Gallery D. — Fossil Reptilia. 



In Wall-case 1 are placed, {a) an interesting series of remains of the remarkable 

 group of extinct " Flying Lizards," or Pterodactyles, of the Secondary Rocks, chiefly 

 derived from the Solenhofen Limestone of Bavaria and the Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorset; 

 {b), the jaws, teeth, and various portions of the skeleton of the great marine Lacertian, 

 Mosasaurus, from the Maestricht chalk ; and from the Cretaceous of New Jersey, U. S. 

 N. America ; (c), the skull, tail-sheath and numerous vertebrae of the great extinct 

 horned Lizard, Megalania prisca, from Australia ; also specimens of Pleurosaurus 

 Goldfussl, and of (yeosnurus Soemmeringii, from the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen. 



Wall-case 2 contains the fine series of remains of Crocodilia and Teleosauria : 

 commencing with the skulls, lower jaws and scutes of Belodon Kapffi, and B. Pleiningeri, 

 from the Trias of Stuttgart ; of Teleosaurus Chapmanni, T. brevior, &c., from the Lias 

 of Whitby, &c., of Teleosaurus, and Steneosaurus, from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset; 

 and T. Cadomensis, from the Oolite of Caen. Remains of Petrosuchus and Goniopliolis 

 from the Purbeck beds of Swanage, Dorset. Skulls and lower jaws of Crocodilus 

 toliapicus, from Sheppey, and C. Hastingsia, from the Middle Eocene, Hordwell, Hants. 

 Melit'tsaurus champsoides, from the Miocene of Malta ; Crocodilus bombifrons and 

 Leptorhynchus gangeticus, &c., from the Newer Miocene Siwalik Hills, India. 



In Table-case 1, are arranged the remains of species of Pterodactyles from the ChaUc, 

 the Gault, the Greensand, Purbeck, Stonesfield Slate, and Kimmeridge Clay, of 

 England, and the Lithographic Stone of Solcnhotien. 



In Table-case 2 the remains of Petroductyles from Stonesfield, and of Dimorphodon 

 from the Lias of Lyme, are placed, together with Diacccnosaurus from the Miocene of 

 Vaucluse ; Varanus from the Sewalik Hills, Dolkliomurus longicoUis from the M. Chalk 

 of Kent, and Nuthetes, Macellodus, Sourillus, and Echinodon from the Purbeck Beds, 

 Swanage. With these are Supheosaiirus and HomcEosuurys from the Lithographic stone, 

 Solenhofen, and parts of the skull, with teeth and vertebras, of Mosasaurus from 

 Maestricht, and Leiodim from the Chalk of Norwich. 



Table-case 3 contains the remains of Snurosternon Bainii, from the Trias of S. Africa; 

 of Rlii/nchosaurus arti.ceps, from the Trias of Shropshire; of Protorosuurus, from the 

 Permian of Thuringia ; an(\. Alphelasaurus, fvoxnJjodQve. Also teeth, vertebrae, skull, 

 and scutes, of Crocodilia from the Siwalik Hills, India, and from the Miocene of AUier, 

 France. 



In Table-case 4 are arranged the teeth, jaws, vertebras, and limb-bones of Crocodilus 

 HastiiigsicB, from the Middle Eocene of Hordwell, and of Crocodilus champsoides, and 

 C. toliapicus, from the London Clay of Sheppey. 



Table-case 5 contains almost entire examples of a small crocodile, Theriosuchus 

 pitsillus, Owen ; together with remains of Goniopholis crassidens, G. tcnuidens, from the 

 Purbeck Beds, Swanage, Dorset ; and Suchosaurus cultridens from the Wealden of 

 Sussex. 



Table-case 6 is occupied by remains of Crocodilia, (fee, as Brachydevtes major, and 

 B. Tiiiiior, Purbeck Beds, Swajjage ; Gavialis Dixoni, Eocene, Bracklesham ; and G. macro- 



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