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acquired for the nation by the strenuous efforts and liberality 
of the late Sir R. Owen (see preface). More recently a still finer 
specimen, with the head complete, has turned up, and this is now 
in the Berlin Museum (see Fig. 79). A very good idea of it may 
Fig. 80. — Restoration of ArchceopteryXy the oldest known bird. By W. P. Pycraft. j 
Skull of same. 
be gathered from the fine drawing presented by the late Professor | 
Dames, which is to be seen at the Natural History Museum, also 
a cast. Some of those who first studied the creature’s anatomy 
took it for a reptile ; and they may well have been puzzled by ^ 
