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from Wealden strata in the Isle of Wight, which has been the 
subject of careful study by Mr. Hulke and Professor Seeley. 
Their conclusions, based on the examination of separate portions 
of the skeleton (such as vertebrse), have been singularly con- 
firmed by the discovery of Brontosaurus. 
In Ornithopsis the vertebrae of the neck and back, though of 
great size, were remarkably light, and yet of great strength. One 
of the vertebrae of the back had a body, or centrum, ten inches 
long. Hoplosaurus and Pelorosaurus were evidently reptiles closely 
allied to the above types; but at present are so imperfectly known 
that we need not consider them here. On a recent visit to Berlin 
the writer was informed by Professor Brauer of the discovery in 
German East Africa of immense quantities of Dinosaurian bones. 
Among these one femur exceeds in length that of Diplodocus by 
several inches. 
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