Transcriber Note
All corrections listed in the "Errata" have been made in the text. Linking text for the plates has been added to the "Contents".
THE ORNITHOSAURIA:
AN ELEMENTARY STUDY
OF
THE BONES OF PTERODACTYLES.
PRINTED BY G. J. CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
THE ORNITHOSAURIA:
AN ELEMENTARY STUDY
OF
THE BONES OF PTERODACTYLES.
MADE FROM FOSSIL REMAINS FOUND IN THE
CAMBRIDGE UPPER GREENSAND,
AND
ARRANGED IN THE WOODWARDIAN MUSEUM OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
BY
HARRY GOVIER SEELEY,
OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
WITH TWELVE PLATES.
"And when the appointed end comes, they lie not dishonoured in
forgetfulness,"—Xenoph. Memor. Book 2, c. 1, § 83.
DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.
LONDON: BELL AND DALDY.
1870.
[All Rights reserved.]
The expense of printing this volume has beendefrayed out of the Funds of the Syndicsof the University Press; and ProfessorSedgwick hereby expresses his grateful thanksto them for this great favour.
PREFACE.
This memoir is a portion of the Catalogue of theWoodwardian Museum which has been made at ProfessorSedgwick's request and at his cost. When the Professorlaid upon me his commands to prepare a Catalogue of theMuseum, it was planned in three distinct works. First, aseries of indexes to the specimens in the great divisions intowhich the Museum is arranged; secondly, a series of memoirsupon the orders and classes of animals concerning whichnew knowledge is given by fossils in the Museum; and,thirdly, memoirs descriptive of those species contained inthe arranged collections which are at present unknown inscientific writings.
For the convenience of students the Catalogue is madein parts. The Syndics of the University Press printed lastautumn as an example of the "Indexes to the Museum," anIndex to the Pterodactyles, Birds, and Reptiles from theSecondary Strata. And this memoir is an example of thesecond kind of Catalogue, which explains the structures ofthe P