The Iguanodons in the Brussels Museum

Abstract

WE are glad to record that the unique collee-tion of skeletons of the Wealden dinosaur Igwnodon in the Royal Museum of Natural History at Brussels has now been installed for safe preservation in two air-tight glass cases, which are probably the largest exhibition cases hitherto placed in a museum. The twelve skeletons, which are mounted in their natural position on iron framework, occupy a case which measures 18 metres in length, 11 metres in maximum width, and 7 metres in height. Part of it is shown in the accompanying photograph (Fig. 1). The skeletons which still lie attached to masses of rock are covered with a case measuring 20.5 metres in length, 13 metres in width, and 7 metres in height. The cases were made by the Belgian branch of the English firm, Messrs. Fred. Sage and Co. Ltd., which has supplied cases to the British Museum and to other English museums.