Paper, 'Further observations on the shoulder girdle and clavicular arch in the Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia' by Harry Govier Seeley

Description

Seeley writes: 'On January 18, 1892, I communicated to the Royal Society observations on the nature of the shoulder girdle and clavicular arch in Sauropterygia, which were read on February 18, and published in the Proceedings on June 25, 1892 [see PP/19/11]. These studies had grown out of the examination of new remains of Anomodont Reptiles, which I obtained in South Africa; and were the result of an endeavour to gain a knowledge of structures in which the shoulder girdle in extinct Reptilia admitted of detailed comparison with those materials. I had made examination of the same region of the skeleton in Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs, and communicated the results to the Geological Society, which were published in the Journal of that Society in November and December, 1874.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Palaeontology

Received 25 May 1893. Read 15 June 1893.

A version of this paper was published in volume 54 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Further observations on the shoulder girdle and clavicular arch in the Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia'.

Reference number

PP/22/13

Earliest possible date

1893

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

29 pages

Format

Manuscript