This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
21 The result of the author's researches is summed up as follows:- "I am inclined to consider [[underlined]] Meiolania [[/underlined]] as a highly specialized branch of the true land-tortoises". G. Baur. On [[underlined]] "Aulacochelys" [[/underlined]], Lydekker, and the Systematic Position of [[underlined]] Anosteira [[/underlined]], Leidy, and [[underlined]] Pseudotrionyx [[/underlined]], Dollo. [[underlined]] Annals and Magazine of Natural History [[/underlined]], (6) III, March, 1889, pp.273-276. The author considers the genus [[underlined]] Aulacochelys [[/underlined]] as not entitled to recognition being based upon trivial characters. He also gives his reasons for refering [[underlined]] Anosteira [[/underlined]] either to the Staurotypidae or the Cinosternidae, but concludes by provisionally