THE 



QUARTEELY JOUMAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OP 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 19, 1866. 



Theodore Cooke, Esq., Principal of the Engineering College, 

 Poonah ; and John Starkie Gardner, Esq., Park House, St. John's 

 Wood, N.W., were elected Pellows. 



The following communications were read : — ■ ' 



1. On a New Specimeist o/Telerpeton Elgestei^se. By Professor 

 Htjxlet, LL.D., F.KS., F.G.S. 



I AM indebted to my friend the Eev. Dr. Gordon, of Birnie by 

 Elgin, for the opportunity of examining the very beautiful and 

 important specimen of Telerpeton Elginense, of which I propose to 

 give a description in the present paper. It is the property of Mr. 

 James Grant, General Assembly Teacher, in Lossiemouth, Elgin, 

 who has been good enough to entrust it to Dr. Gordon for trans- 

 mission to me ; and it was obtained from the well-lniown reptili- 

 ferous beds of Lossiemouth, along with some highly interesting 

 fragments of Stagonolepis and Hyperodapedon. 



The fine-grained sandstone in which the fossil has been imbedded 

 is broken irregularly into five pieces; and the several bones are 

 represented by sharp and well-defined casts, the orig-inal osseous 

 substance having disappeared, or being represented only by pulve- 

 rulent bone-earth, or by oxide of iron. The body is curved towards 

 the right side, . and the head and neck are bent dorsad in a plane 

 different from that of the trunk. 



The length of the skull is 1-65 in., that of the vertebral column, 



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