. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. No. 47. Ichthyosaurus : f. Nos. 43 - 49 (figs. 46 - 50) are restorations of the Pterodactyle, Megalosau7us, Iguanodon^ Labyiinthodon^ Ichthyosaurus^ Plesiosaurus dolichodeirusand P. viacrocephalus. They are reduced (one inch to the foot) from thegigantic models in the Crystal Palace, London; constructed to scale by Hawkins, , , from the form and jDroportionsof the fossil re

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. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. No. 47. Ichthyosaurus : f. Nos. 43 - 49 (figs. 46 - 50) are restorations of the Pterodactyle, Megalosau7us, Iguanodon^ Labyiinthodon^ Ichthyosaurus^ Plesiosaurus dolichodeirusand P. viacrocephalus. They are reduced (one inch to the foot) from thegigantic models in the Crystal Palace, London; constructed to scale by Hawkins, , , from the form and jDroportionsof the fossil remains, and in strict accordance with the scientific deductionsof the British Cuvier, Professor Owen. Preliminary drawings, with carefulmeasurements of the originals in the Rojal College of Surgeons, BritisliMuseum and Geological Society, were prepared, and sketch models made ata fraction of the natural size, and submitted to the above high models were then made of the natural size. To give an idea of these monster Saurians, Mr. Hawkins states that theIguanodon, as it now stands in the Crystal Palace, is composed of four ironcolumns 9 feet long by 7 inches in diameter, 600 bricks, 1550 tiles, 38casks of

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