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[May 1900, 



Mr. Bain wrote to me that lie had no doubt that his sketch and 

 my figure of Eurycarpus were both made from the same skeleton. 

 The remainder of Mr. Bain's specimen was left in the rock and 

 lost. The counterpart slab was in the possession of a Boer ; and one 

 half of that slab (without the head) eventually passed into the 

 possession of the Rev. Charles Murray, of Graaf Reinet. That 

 gentleman had the kindness to send me the specimen. 1 It shows the 

 ventral aspect of the vertebrae, ribs, and limb-bones of which the 

 dorsal aspect is already known. 



Fig. 1. — Photographic reproduction of Bain's sketch of the 

 skeleton of Eurycarpus Oweni. 



An impression of the cavities left by the bones in this second slab 

 was taken for me in the Natural History Museum. The two slabs 

 were then fitted together, and plaster of Paris was run in between 

 them, so as to show the upper and under surfaces and forms of the 

 larger limb-bones and vertebrae. 



The missing parts of the animal may be estimated from Mr. Bain's 

 statement that the visible skeleton was 2 feet 4 inches long. The 

 remains on this slab measure 1 foot 9| inches, showing that the 

 skull and other parts which are lost could not have measured more 

 than 6| inches in length. 



No minute accuracy can be claimed for Mr. Bain's sketch. Its 



1 With it he sent a large fish, apparently a species of Atherstonia, which I 

 presented to the Natural History Museum. 



