A743.09    Beagle Library:     Bory de Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed. 1822-31. Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle. 17 vols. Paris: Rey & Gravier. vol. 9.   Text

fragmens, par Conybeare, avant que la d couverte d'un squelette presque entier trouv encore Lyme Regis par miss Mary Anning, soit venue confirmer les savantes conjectures du g ologue anglais. Ce beau Fossile, achet , dit-on, la somme de cent louis par le duc de Buckingham, a t mis par lui, dans le pur int r t de la science, la disposition des membres de la Soci t g ologique de Londres, pour qu'ils puisseut le faire dessiner et le d crire. Nous avons eu l'occasion d'examiner avec soin cette

A743.09    Beagle Library:     Bory de Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed. 1822-31. Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle. 17 vols. Paris: Rey & Gravier. vol. 9.   Text

souvent, comme nous l'avonS appris de miss Mary Anning elle-m me, t couronn es du succ s; les os sont bris s ou plut t comme cras s par le poids des masses sup rieures, car ils sont rarement us s ou roul s; si l'on en trouve dans cet tat sur les plages, il est plus que probable que, d tach s des couches qui les renfermaient, ils ont prouv l'action moderne des vagues; cependant beaucoup de ces os sont recouverts par de petites Hu tres et de petites Gryph es qui adh rent fortement leur surface

A761.11    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 11: Fossil remains.   Text

, was seven inches and a half long, with a breadth of nearly three inches. The hinder paddle was a little less both in breadth and length. The head of I. communis, possessed by the Baron, must have been at least two feet and a-half in length: therefore, it announces an individual nine feet long, or thereabouts. A skeleton, discovered on the coast of Dorsetshire by Miss Mary Anning, has, however, been referred to this species, though only five feet long. In fact, the size may vary very considerably

A548    Book:     Cuvier, Georges. 1830. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization . . . with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. By Edward Griffith and others. Supplementary volume on the fossils. London: Whittacker.   Text   Image

position, thereby, however, exposing to view the interior of the mouth; the sternum bones of the pelvis, and ribs are in good order; the head is extremely small, not exceeding perhaps three inches in width, but the neck is as long as the .body and tail together. , This very perfect and highly interesting specimen of the remains of an ichthyosaurus was discovered in February, 1829, by Miss Anning; nor can we suffer the present opportunity to pass by without bearing testimony to the arduous and zealous

A548    Book:     Cuvier, Georges. 1830. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization . . . with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. By Edward Griffith and others. Supplementary volume on the fossils. London: Whittacker.   Text   Image

. second series.) Lastly, in 1824, in the month of January, a skeleton, almost entire, was found, by the before-named Miss Anning, at Lyme Regis. This confirmed or rectified the conjectures which Mr. Conybeare had formed on the parts which he had examined. But he also learned from it a particularity altogether new, and of which he had not entertained the slightest suspicion. This was, that the neck of this animal had been of a most disproportionate length, and composed of many more vertebrae than are