On Hypsilophodon Foxii , a new Dinosaurian from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight

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D uring the meeting of the British Association at Norwich in 1868, Mr. F. Fellows, on behalf of the Rev. W. Fox, read a paper on, and exhibited the skull of, a fossil reptile discovered by that indefatigable explorer of the rocks of the Isle of Wight in a bed of the Wealden formation, “which forms the floor of Cowleaze Chine, and rises to the top of the sea cliff at Barne's High, in the parish of Brixton.” Mr. Fox considered the reptile to be a “young Iguanodon ,” or more probably a “new small species of Iguanodon ,” and stated that he had found “several other skeletons” of the animal in the same locality. In accordance with a wish expressed to me by Mr. Fellows, I made as careful an examination of the specimen as the circumstances would permit, and embodied the results of the investigation in some observations, accompanied by extemporaneous illustrations, which I made before Section C when the paper was read. I pointed out the peculiar value of the skull, which arose from the nearly entire condition of the præmaxillary bones, which last had, up to that time, been displayed by no Dinosaurian fossil, except, perhaps, Compsognathus . I further drew attention to the singular fact that the incisor teeth, or those contained in the posterior moiety of each præmaxilla, were totally different in shape from the maxillary teeth; and that the anterior moiety of the præmaxilla was beak-like and edentulous. Moreover I expressed the opinion that while the affinity

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