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the broad sternum which these reptiles possessed. The existence 
of the large toe in company with the small one is in favor of a 
jumping animal.” —From the Memoir of Prof. Cope on Extinct Rep- 
tilia and Aves, Amer. Phil. Soc., unpublished oh 
Elasmosaurus platyurus of Cope by Dr. J. Lumwy. 
(Communicated by the Author) —At a sleatinas of the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Mar s 8th, “Prof, Leidy stated 
that after an examination of the remains of the great marine sau- 
of. Cape has fi sites 3 into ous an me deseribing seen skeleton 
in a reversed position to the true one, and in that 
resented it in a restored condition in his recent “ Syoopel sis of the 
Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia, and Aves,” pubuahaid in the Transac- 
tions of the American Philosophical Society. To explain the appa- 
rently anomalous and reversed condition of the articular processes, 
(zygapophyses) of the vertebra, he considers that those ordinarily 
existing in animals are substituted by the —_ set (zygosphene 
and eee) of serpents and iguanian 
discovery of a portion of the slealls' as reported by Dr. Tur- 
ner, in the Heese of what Prof. Cope "regards a as the anterior 
Elasmosaurus as. identical with im Such also appears originally 
to have ea the view of Prof. Cope, in relation to a part of 
the same skeleton which he referred. to a species with the name 
Diseosaurus carinatus. 
The restored Discosaurus or Elasm osuurus, would repeat the 
form usually given of Plesiosaurus, but the neck was of more 
eeatiable length than in the latter, It Hie geet the almost 
: Mesidible: 
rest of shy: ve rtebral pobanni ees not permit any- 
Sc e rome to be made of the ret ex- 
fails to ese its ‘ground. 
