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IN vol. xxviii. of NATURE (pp. 439 and 515), an account was given by Prof. Moseley of the magnificent skeletons of Iguanodons now mounted in the Brussels Museum of Natural History, which were at that time regarded as among the most remarkable of that extinct group of giant reptiles commonly known as Dinosaurs. Since that date, however, we have been gradually—thanks to the indefatigable labours of the transatlantic palæontologists—acquiring a fuller knowledge of the representatives of this curious group, of which the remains are preserved in such fine condition in the Secondary rocks of the United States Within the last few years, from the writings of Profs. Marsh and Cope—and more especially the excellent figures by which those of the former are illustrated—we have acquired so much information as to the form and structure of the gigantic Jurassic species belonging to the Sauro-podous sub-order of the Dinosaurs—such as Brontosaurus—that we have begun to regard these extinct creatures as old friends (or should we rather say enemies?) and to flatter ourselves that our knowledge of the whole class is well nigh complete.
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L., R. The Horned Dinosaurs of the United States. Nature 42, 349–351 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042349a0
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