A MONOGUAPH 
or A 
FOSSIL DINOSAUE 
(8CELID0HAVBVS IIABBISONII, Owen) 
or THE 
LOWER LIAS. 
PART II. 
The continued attention paid by James Harrison, Esq., to the organic remains 
discovered during the quarrying operations on the face of tlie cliff of Lower Lias at 
Charmoiith, Dorsetshire, with liberal encouragement to the workmen, has procured 
for the original discoverer of the first indication of the Scelidosaur the materials 
for the present account of an almost complete skeleton of that extinct reptile. 
Following in the track opened out by the discovery of the skull described in 
the preceding Monograph,* about twelve successive blocks of Lias were secured, 
with more or less evident indications of included bones, all of which, together 
with the skull, have been purchased for the British Museum. Subsequent com- 
plete exposure of the included organic remains has brought to light the entire 
vertebral column of the trunk and tail, to very near the termination of the latter; 
the scapulo-coracoid arch and part of one fore limb being associated with the 
thorax, and the iliac bones and both hind limbs with the sacrum. 
In the operation of clearing oft* the matrix, scattered dermal bones first presented 
themselves, and these were removed, with a note of their position, when it became 
plain that they did not touch or rest upon any part of the endo-skeleton. This 
being reached, the dermal bones in contact with it were left, save where they con- 
* Volume of the Palseontographical Society for 18.59, p. 7, Plates IV, V, and VI. 
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