though of nondescript characters, did not interfere with his long-cherished opinion—founded on acknowledged facts—as to the progressive succession of great classes of animals, and that, inasmuch as the earliest trilobite of the invertebrate Lower Silurian era was as wonderfully organized as any living Crustacean, so it did not unsettle his belief to find that the earliest reptiles yet recognized,—the Stagonolepis and Telerpeton,—pertained to a high order of that class.
At the same meeting, papers were read "On the Stagonolepis Robertsoni of the Elgin Sandstones, and on the Footmarks in 'the Sandstones of Cummingston," by Mr. T. H. Huxley; as well as one "On Fossil Foot-prints in the Old Red Sandstones at Cummingston," by S. H. Beckles, Esq.
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