PREFACE 



TO THE 



REPTILIA OF THE KIMMERIDGE CLAY AND 

 PORTLAND STONE. 



The annual volume of the Palaeontographical Society for the year 1859 was 

 issued in the year 1861, but the discovery, determination, and description of the 

 fossil Reptilian remains therein recorded were completed before the end of 1860. 



Other fossil remains, besides those mentioned in the Monographs referred to 



(pp. 15 and 27) from the Kimmeridge Clay, have given confirmatory evidence of 



the genus Pliosaurus, first recorded in the ' British Association Reports,' 1841, 



and characterised in the volumes published by the Palaeontographical Society in 



1861 and 1863. 



R. 



February 1st, 1888. 



