MIOCENE BEDS OF THE MALTESE ISLANDS. 531 
as regards both the fossils and the stratigraphical details. He 
offered some remarks on the structure of the island and of its 
strata. 
Mr. Hutxe remarked that we now knew that many of the old 
life-forms had a wide range in space and time. For example, the 
Iguanodon was once supposed to be restricted to the Wealden; but 
he thought there was clear evidence that it lived in Purbeck time, 
and also in all probability (from the evidence of a femur in the 
British Museum) survived to the Maestricht Chalk. 
Prof. SrrLry said the Woodwardian Museum contained Jethyo- 
saurus vertebree from the London Clay of Sheppey, which might or 
might not be derived, possibly Liassic, as he rather suspected, pos- 
sibly a new form. 
