RECORD: Bell, Thomas. 1859.05.30. Report on Mr Huxley's paper on Crocodilia. LINSOC-SP.585c[2]. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Photographed and transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission from the Linnean Society of London and William Huxley Darwin.
Huxley, T. H. 1859. On the Dermal Armour of Crocodilus Hastingsiæ. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 15: 678-80.
Huxley, T. H. 1859. On the dermal armour of Jacare and Caiman, with notes on the Specific and Generic Characters of recent Crocodilia. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 4: 1-28.
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Report on Mr Huxley's paper on Crocodilia
Report on Mr Huxley's paper on Crocodilia
In Mr Huxley's paper on the Crocodilia, the whole subject is thoroughly well considered, and elaborately worked onto the discovery of ventral dermal bones in two recent forms, analogous to those previously described by the same author, and published in the journal of the geological society as characterising the extinct genus Stagonolepis is highly interesting — The examination
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of the relation between the dermal bones and the skin in which they are partially imbedded has thrown some light on this structure, although the application of the ordinary connective tissue to this part is perhaps scarcely sufficiently definitive — The classification of the whole order forms a valuable literature of this branch of zoology—
The paper is recommended to be printed in extenso in the Journal of Proceedings, with one or more woodcut illustration of the newly discovered dermal bones —
Thomas Bell
May 30 1859
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