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(1) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London (2) A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes in the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History)

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(1) THE museum having acquired the unrivalled collection of reptilian remains obtained with much labour and unceasing care by the Messrs. Leeds—more especially Mr. A. N. Leeds—from the brickpits in the Oxford Clay near Peterborough, it was only fitting that they should be described in a manner worthy of their importance and value. So far as the marine forms are concerned, that is to say, the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and pliosaurs, and crocodiles, the task has been entrusted to Dr. C. W. Andrews, who for several years past has devoted a large portion of his time to the study of these groups. How thoroughly well he has accomplished the work will be apparent to all specialists who study the present volume, which deals with the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

(1) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London.

Part i. By Dr. C. W. Andrews. Pp. xxiii + 205 + x plates. (London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910. Sold by Longmans and Co., B. Quaritch, and Dulau and Co., Ltd.) Price 25s.

(2) A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes in the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History).

Ninth edition. Pp. xviii + 110. (London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910.) Price 9d.

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L., R. (1) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London (2) A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes in the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History). Nature 85, 264–265 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085264a0

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