432 Dr. BucKLAND on the discoveri/ of Bones, Sgc. 



respecting" them. "When first I observed these bones, I was passing- on the 

 sea-shore, after a week of stormy weather, which had created a heavy sea, 

 and consequently a great tumbling in of its waves on the beach, which swept 

 every moveable object before it, even the shingle and sand, to the depth of 

 two feet, which exposed many fossils lying amongst the large stones on the 

 ground. I frequently visited the same spot during the following winter, and 

 never came home empty-handed ; and always found something, until I brought 

 almost all away." The most remarkable bones in this numerous collection 

 are several very large sub-quadrangular vertebra; of Iguanodon, a large por- 

 tion of a compressed femur, a nearly perfect lower extremity of another large 

 femur, and fragments of the limbs of the same animal ; also a considerable 

 number of vertebrEe, and many other bones of smaller reptiles. These bones 

 have all suffered injury by rolling among the pebbles amidst which they were 

 found. They had probably fallen long ago, and at intervals, from the low 

 cliff of the Wealden formation, which overhangs the beach, like those found 

 at Swanvvich by Mr. Bartlett ; and being much impregnated with iron, their 

 weight had caused them to sink deep into the shingle, at the base of the gra- 

 dually decomposing cliff, from which they were brought to the surface by the 

 extraordinary storm which immediately preceded their discovery. 



In the low cliff of grey sandstone interspersed with clay, adjacent to this 

 spot, Mr. Smith found also many curious small cones of Zamia, mixed with 

 fragments of lignite ; three of these cones are in one small block, presented 

 by him to the Oxford Museum. Figures of these cones have been published 

 by Professor Lindley, by the name of Zamia crassa, in the 14th Number of 

 his Fossil Flora, PL 136. 



Discoveri/ of Iguanodon in Marine Formation near Maidstone* . 

 A large proportion of the skeleton of an Iguanodon, discovered in January 

 1834, in the quarries of Kentish Rag, near Maidstone, and now placed in the 

 splendid museum of Mr. Mantell at Brighton, has verified nearly all his con- 

 jectures respecting the insulated bones found in the Wealden formation, which 

 he had assigned to this animal. The two femora measured thirty-three inches 

 each in length, and a tibia and fibula thirty inches each. The position of this 

 skeleton in a marine limestone of the lower green-sand formation must be re- 

 ferred to a carcase drifted to sea not long after the completion of the Wealden 

 estuary deposits. 



* See a notice by Mr. Mantell, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. xvii. p. 200, 

 No. 33, July 1834. 



