XXXIII1 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIMEN OF GLYPTODON 
RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY THE ROYAL COLLEGE 
OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. 
Proceedings of the Rayal Society of London, vol. xit., pp. 316-326. 
(Read December 18th, 1862.) 
In the present brief preliminary notice I propose to give an 
account of the more remarkable features of the skeleton of a 
specimen of the extinct genus Glyptodon, recently added to the 
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 
The specimen was obtained in 1860, by Signor Maximo Terrero,. 
on the banks of the River Salado, and was presented to the College by 
that gentleman, through the instrumentality of the late President of 
the College, J. F. South, Esq. 
It arrived in England in an extremely broken and mutilated 
condition; but by the exercise of great care and patience, Mr. 
Waterhouse Hawkins, to whom the President and Council of the 
Royal College of Surgeons entrusted the task of adjusting the 
scattered fragments, has succeeded in restoring to their natural 
condition the greater part of the vertebral column, the limbs, and 
much of the head. In the execution of this laborious undertaking 
Mr. Hawkins has had, from time to time, all the anatomical aid that 
Mr. Flower, the Conservator of the College Museum, and I could 
afford him ; and the authorities of the College have finally entrusted 
me, as one of the Professors of the College, with the duty of 
describing the specimen. 
This duty I propose to discharge by preparing a full description 
of the skeleton in a memoir to be presented (accompanied by a 
draught of the requisite illustrations) to the Royal Society. But as 
