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6. Front view of bony plates in the Eye of an Iguana.

7. Profile of the same.

8. Two of the fourteen component scales of the same.

I owe these three last figures to the kindness of Mr. Allis of York.

The spaces between these bones, are covered with the remains of skin; the Epidermis being represented by a delicate film, and the Rete mucosum by fine threads of white Carbonate of Lime; beneath these the Corium, or true skin, is preserved in the state of dark Carbonate of Lime, charged with black volatile matter, of a bituminous and oily consistence.