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  HITLKE 
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  14. 
  Description 
  of 
  some 
  Iguanodon-remaxns 
  indicating 
  a 
  new 
  Species, 
  

   I. 
  Seelyi. 
  By 
  J. 
  W. 
  Hulke, 
  Esq., 
  F.R.S., 
  Pres. 
  G.S. 
  (Eead 
  

   February 
  8, 
  1882.) 
  

  

  [Plate 
  IV.] 
  

  

  Although 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  Iguanodon-Tem&ms 
  are 
  now 
  to 
  

   be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  public 
  and 
  private 
  collections 
  in 
  this 
  country, 
  they 
  

   consist, 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part, 
  of 
  dissociated 
  bones. 
  Discoveries 
  of 
  several 
  

   bones 
  of 
  this 
  Dinosaur 
  under 
  such 
  circumstances 
  as 
  warrant 
  the 
  

   belief 
  that 
  they 
  formed 
  part 
  of 
  one 
  skeleton 
  have 
  been 
  extremely 
  

   rare, 
  on 
  which 
  account 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  proportions 
  of 
  the 
  

   several 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  skeleton 
  has 
  remained 
  very 
  incomplete. 
  

  

  The 
  announcement 
  of 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  series 
  of 
  Igua- 
  

   nodon 
  fossils 
  atBernissart 
  in 
  1878 
  raised 
  the 
  expectation 
  that 
  before 
  

   long 
  a 
  complete 
  osteology 
  of 
  Iguanodon 
  would 
  issue 
  under 
  the 
  

   auspices 
  of 
  the 
  Belgian 
  government. 
  An 
  examination 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  

   these 
  remarkable 
  fossils, 
  which 
  the 
  obliging 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  Musee 
  

   d'Histoire 
  Naturelle 
  at 
  Brussels 
  allowed 
  me 
  to 
  make 
  in 
  Aug. 
  1879, 
  

   showed 
  me 
  that 
  their 
  importance 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  exaggerated, 
  and 
  it 
  

   led 
  me 
  to 
  defer 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  this 
  communication, 
  which 
  I 
  had 
  

   begun 
  some 
  time 
  before. 
  Having, 
  however, 
  recently 
  been 
  told 
  by 
  

   M. 
  Boulenger, 
  to 
  whom 
  their 
  description 
  is 
  intrusted, 
  that 
  no 
  

   exhaustive 
  memoir 
  on 
  them 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  expected 
  for 
  several 
  years, 
  I 
  

   no 
  longer 
  hesitate 
  to 
  present 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  some 
  

   fossils 
  obtained 
  by 
  myself 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Wight 
  in 
  1870, 
  which 
  

   afford, 
  in 
  particular, 
  very 
  considerable 
  information 
  respecting 
  the 
  

   form 
  and 
  proportions 
  of 
  the 
  several 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  limb. 
  

  

  These 
  remains 
  comprise 
  the 
  nearly 
  complete 
  right 
  hind 
  limb 
  and 
  

   the 
  right 
  humerus, 
  the 
  left 
  haunch-bone, 
  and 
  the 
  left 
  foot, 
  three 
  

   caudal 
  vertebrae, 
  and 
  several 
  chevrons. 
  

  

  All 
  these 
  fossils, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  humerus 
  and 
  vertebrae 
  

   (which 
  occurred 
  at 
  the 
  distance 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  feet 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  others 
  in 
  

   the 
  same 
  bed), 
  were 
  lying 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  area 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  square 
  yards, 
  in 
  

   a 
  bed 
  of 
  hard 
  nodules 
  intercalated 
  between 
  the 
  red 
  and 
  purple 
  clays 
  

   below 
  and 
  the 
  iron-stained 
  flint-gravel 
  which 
  caps 
  the 
  cliff 
  west 
  of 
  

   Brook 
  Chine. 
  This 
  nodule-bed 
  has 
  an 
  apparent 
  westerly 
  dip 
  ; 
  it 
  

   soon 
  crosses 
  the 
  shore, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  usually 
  hidden 
  by 
  sand 
  and 
  sea- 
  

   weed 
  ; 
  and 
  it 
  then 
  passes 
  out 
  seawards 
  under 
  the 
  well 
  known 
  Pine 
  

   Baft. 
  A 
  few 
  yards 
  east 
  of 
  where 
  this 
  nodule-bed 
  touches 
  the 
  cliff- 
  

   foot, 
  the 
  cliff 
  is 
  cut 
  through 
  by 
  a 
  small 
  gully 
  worn 
  by 
  a 
  little 
  rill. 
  

   In 
  the 
  east 
  bank 
  of 
  this 
  gully 
  were 
  the 
  fossils. 
  

  

  The 
  coxswain 
  of 
  the 
  lifeboat 
  told 
  me 
  that, 
  about 
  ten 
  years 
  before, 
  

   he 
  saw 
  a 
  gentleman 
  take 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  spot 
  nearly 
  a 
  cart-load 
  of 
  

   bones. 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  ascertain 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  this 
  fortunate 
  

   discoverer, 
  or 
  the 
  present 
  locality 
  of 
  these 
  fossils. 
  

  

  i7wm 
  (PI. 
  IV. 
  fig. 
  1). 
  — 
  The 
  present 
  length 
  of 
  this 
  large 
  and 
  massive 
  

   bone 
  is 
  118 
  centim. 
  (47 
  in.)*; 
  but 
  as 
  a 
  small 
  piece 
  is 
  broken 
  off 
  at 
  

   each 
  end, 
  its 
  length 
  when 
  perfect 
  was 
  probably 
  not 
  less 
  than 
  124 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  reduction 
  to 
  English 
  measure 
  throughout 
  is 
  only 
  approximate. 
  

   Q. 
  J. 
  G. 
  S. 
  No. 
  150. 
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