IV.—Observations on the Reconstructed Skeleton of the Dinosaurian Reptile Diplodocus Carnegiei as set up by Dr. W. J. Holland in the Natural History Museum in London, and an attempt to restore it by means of a Model

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In the following pages the writer has endeavoured to consider this skeleton in a common-sense way, and to arrange the limbs with reference to ordinary mechanical principles, and also by comparison of the bones with those of different mammalian and reptilian types. A good many years ago, Von Meyer was so struck by the colossal and rather straight hind-limb bones of the Dinosauria and their superficial resemblance to those of elephants, that he proposed the term Elephantopoda; but at that time the group had not been classified by Marsh and others into distinct sub-orders, with very different limbs.