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Excerpt from A History of British Fossil Reptiles, Vol. 1
The contribution of such descriptions to the annual volumes was attended with the Society's permission to take, at my own cost, impressions of the plates, after their use by the Society, for the purpose of the present work.
Its issue in Parts exhausted the materials at my command in 1854, and I thought that the new Fossil Reptiles, of which I received indications, would occupy a concluding part of like size and number of plates with its forerunners. But the acquisitions of fragmentary fossils, suggestive of new species or genera of Reptili'a, beguiled me into procrastinating hopes of reconstructions which, in some instances have been fulfilled. In the excitement of such quests after draconic forms time passes swiftly, and conviction becomes imperative that it must have a term. Moreover, a Record of what may have been discovered of a given group or class of Natural Objects, especially of Fossil Remains, with figures aiding recognition and comparison, becomes a help and stimulus to rapid and extensive additions. The attempt to grapple with these and make them usefully known has absorbed year by year such leisure as I could so devote after official duties. The result is summarised in the Indexes to Volumes I and III of the present work.
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