Description of Anthracosaurus Russelli, a new Labyrinthodont from the Lanarkshire Coal-field

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I n September last, Mr. James Russell, Mineral Surveyor, of Chapelhall, near Airdrie, called at the Museum of Practical Geology to make some inquiries respecting the probable nature of a fossil (supposed to be a fish) lately brought to light by the workmen engaged upon the Monkland Iron and Steel Company's estate, about a mile from Airdrie and twelve miles east of Glasgow, and found in what is known as the Airdrie or Mushet's black-band Ironstone*. I was at that time absent from London; but Mr. Etheridge, to whom Mr. Russell described the fossil, strongly advised that a careful drawing should be made and sent up to London, for my examination. This was eventually done, and the sketch, faithfully executed in its general characters, which reached me on the 6th of November, appeared so conclusively to indicate the Labyrinthodont nature of the fossil, that I at once requested Mr. Russell to permit me to have it sent up to the Museum for closer examination. Mr. Russell very obligingly consented to this proposition, and the specimen reached me in perfect safety on the 27th of November, my interest in it having in the meanwhile been greatly heightened by the reports respecting its characters which had reached me from Professor Rogers, Mr. David Page, and Mr. Armstrong of Glasgow. A glance at the fossil was sufficient to satisfy me that these reports had not unduly exaggerated its merits. It exhibited, in fact, the greater part of the contour of a skull, 15 inches

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