. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . FAUNA OF THE QOSATJ FOKMATION. 621 was so fortunate as to obtain the assistance of Bergverwaltcr Paw-lowitsch in conducting excavations. These were carried on withadmirable skill; timber drift-ways were driven into the rocks, withthe result that they penetrated into a perfect cemetery of the remainsof Cretaceous reptiles. The remarkable collection thus obtainedwas intrusted for description to Dr. Emanuel Biinzel, whose memoirupon it was published in 1871 in the Transactions of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institution. Subsequently
. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . FAUNA OF THE QOSATJ FOKMATION. 621 was so fortunate as to obtain the assistance of Bergverwaltcr Paw-lowitsch in conducting excavations. These were carried on withadmirable skill; timber drift-ways were driven into the rocks, withthe result that they penetrated into a perfect cemetery of the remainsof Cretaceous reptiles. The remarkable collection thus obtainedwas intrusted for description to Dr. Emanuel Biinzel, whose memoirupon it was published in 1871 in the Transactions of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institution. Subsequently more specimens werediscovered; and in Easter 1879 my honoured friend, Prof. Suess,invited me to visit Vienna to examine these specimens, with theobject of making them available for the advancement of knowledgeby publication. With the assistance of the Royal Society I gladlyundertook this work, and spent a month in Vienna studying thethousands of fragments which had been obtained. The great massof these, mere comminuted bones, proved of but little value; or,
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