History Experts: Professor D'Arcy Thompson on Chameleons & Dinosaurs?

[Brad McFeeters <archosauromorph2@hotmail.com>]

Something I found at the library not too long ago:

Thompson, D.W., 1886.  On the systematic position of the chameleon, and its 
affinities with the Dinosauria.  Report of the Fifty-Fifth Meeting of the 
British Association for the Advancement of Science: p. 1065.

The above citation has a very interesting title, but no absract to go with 
it.  This is surprising, since the previous and following papers on the page 
do have absracts- O.C. Marsh on the brain size of extinct animals, and 
Thompson again on the hindlimb of Ichthyosaurus, respectively.    All I can 
report is that the chameleon/dinosaur affinities paper was read on Monday 
September 14, 1885, at the Meeting of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science held in Aberdeen.

Does anyone on this list know the nature of the "affinities" Thompson 
suggested?  Have dinosaurs ever been considered ancestors of modern 
chameleons?!

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