cHap. xvi] Plesiosaurus Dolichodeiras. 319 
he came upon the second volume of the Penny Magazine. 
While turning over the pages by chance, he saw a picture 
of old bones which had much puzzled his brains some thir- 
ty years before. And now he remembered that it was the 
picture of the bones here drawn that had first given him 
the idea that this bone in the museum was the remnant of 
some extinct animal. And here was the creature itself 
from which the bone had been taken. It was the Plesio- 
saurus dolichodeiras ; the bone in the museum being one of 
the femurs of the fore-paddle of that long-extinct monster. 
To make assurance doubly sure, Edward took a photo- 
graph of the bone, and sent it to a scientific correspondent 
in London; when he had the pleasure of being informed 
there was no doubt whatever that the bone was one of the 
femurs of the fore-paddle of the Plesiosaurus. Here, then, 
was a discovery well worth all the care, the trouble, and the 
anxiety which the bone had occasioned. It may also be 
mentioned that, so far as is known, no other fragment of 
the Plesiosaurus has yet been found in Scotland. They 
have been met with in England in the secondary strata, and 
on the Continent, principally in the Oolite and Lias. -The 
bone in question is now one of the most cherished relics of 
the Banff Museum. ; 
BANFF MUSEUM. 
