. Synopsis reptilium : or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I., Cataphracta. Tortoises, crocodiles, and enaliosaurians . PUBLISHED BY TREUTTEL, WURTZ, and Co. SOHO-SQUARE;G. B. SOWERBY, 156, REGENT-STREET; AND W. WOOD,37, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1831. DIGGENS AND JONES, LEICESTER STREET. TO THOMAS BELL, Esa., F. R. S., &c. THESE FEW PAGES ARE DEDICATED, AS i. MARK OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. S 4- The Collections of Reptiles of the British Museum, theCollege of Surgeons, and Mr. Bell, have furnished thebasis of this work. The two first of these coll
. Synopsis reptilium : or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I., Cataphracta. Tortoises, crocodiles, and enaliosaurians . PUBLISHED BY TREUTTEL, WURTZ, and Co. SOHO-SQUARE;G. B. SOWERBY, 156, REGENT-STREET; AND W. WOOD,37, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1831. DIGGENS AND JONES, LEICESTER STREET. TO THOMAS BELL, Esa., F. R. S., &c. THESE FEW PAGES ARE DEDICATED, AS i. MARK OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. S 4- The Collections of Reptiles of the British Museum, theCollege of Surgeons, and Mr. Bell, have furnished thebasis of this work. The two first of these collections con-tain many of the species which have been described by ; the College of Surgeons contains the Tortoiseswhich were in the Leverian Museum; but in the part nowpublished I am most indebted to the kindness of Mr. Bell,whose collection of Tortoises far exceeds that of any museumin Europe, and whose liberality in allowing me the use of itI cannot too highly appreciate. It is to be hoped that hisMonograph, for which he has collected them, and for whichhe has kept and had drawn alive more than two-thirds of theknown spsynopsisreptiliu31gray
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