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wardian Museum (fig. 14) ; there are indications of its presence in 

 the skeleton of Plesiosaurus Etheridgii in the Museum in Jermyn 



Fig. IS.-— Leg and Foot of Cryptobranchus japonicus. (After 

 Wiedersheim in Gegenbaur's Morphol. Jahrb. iii.) 



T, the tibia ; F, the fibula ; t, os tibiale ; /, os fibulare ; c, c 1, c 2, ossa centralia 

 *, os intermedium ; 1-5 distal carpalia. 



Fig. 14. — Plesiosaurus cliduchus. (From a photograph of the 

 fossil in the Wood wardian Museum.) 



*, scapula ; c, the coracoid ; per, the prrecoracoid ; gl, the glenoid fossa. 



Street ; and it is, I venture to say, impossible to overlook it in the 

 admirably executed cast of a skeleton of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus 

 which forms one of the treasures in our own Museum (fig. 15). This 

 cast, with others, Mr. Dallas informs me, was presented to the Society 

 by Baron Cuvier on the 3rd February, 1829 ; and these specimens are 

 mentioned by the President, Dr. Fitton, in his anniversary address 

 on the 20th of the same month in that year, as " doubly valuable on 

 account of their connexion with his own [Cuvier's] publications." I 



