XV. Polacanthus foxii, a large undescribed dinosaur from the Wealden formation in the Isle of Wight

Abstract

For the opportunity of studying the remains described in this note I am indebted to the courtesy of the Rev. W. Fox, of Brixton, Isle of Wight, who last autumn gave me free access to his rich collection of fossils obtained in that locality. Much shattered by being very hastily dug out, and since much damaged by the accidental breakages and the dissociations scarcely avoidable in the absence of a suitable place for their safe-keeping, there is risk of these remains becoming before long lost to the palæontologist. In view of this not improbable eventuality I venture to offer to the Royal Society these notes, in writing which I have been reminded that it was to this Society the late Dr. G. A. Mantell, now more than fifty years since, communicated his first discoveries of Iguanodont and Hylæosaurian remains.