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in Mr. Cowper Reed's figures, but are clearly visible in the full-size photographic views 

 of the fossil reproduced in this Memoir (Plates 25 and 26). These pores seem to 

 denote that the interior of the bulb was filled with living tissue, not with air alone ; 

 otherwise it is difficult to see what function they could have served ; and indeed they 

 would seem to be the last characteristic one would expect to find in an organism 

 intended to be impervious to water ; for even if they were sealed by a membrane of 

 some kind, the use of the bulb as a float would have been destroyed by the least 

 abrasion. 



From a sketch by the author. 



Fro. 4. The Kyaukmu Falls. 



