40 On the Remains of Vertebrated Animals 



lectors has nearly extirpated some of our rarest plants. The 

 Cypripedium Calceolus, once common near Ingleborough, in 

 Yorkshire, is now hardly ever met with ; and such is the fate 

 of the Orchis militaris. How desirable is it, that botanists 

 should bear in mind the christian advice of the late Mr. James 

 Dickson, that " if they found but four or five specimens of a 

 plant, only to take one ; ever recollecting, that there are other 

 botanists, equally eager as themselves, to collect a specimen." 

 Instead of following this golden rule, many seem to consider 

 quantity as the only criterion of botanical knowledge ; and 

 sorry am I to say, that the students of some of our public in- 

 stitutions have adopted this erroneous and selfish opinion. — 

 It gives me great pain to be compelled to make these remarks, 

 but when I see these wholesale collectors, after a day's her- 

 barising, laden with bundles and baskets, full of our rarer 

 plants, like a regiment of botanical pedlars, I cannot help, for 

 the sake of the present as well as future botanists, urging them 

 to bear in mind the beautiful precept of doing as they would 

 be done by ; and also reminding them, that true liberty does 

 not consist in doing what we please, — but, in doing what we 

 please without injuring another. 

 London, Dec. 10th, 1837. 



Art. X. A Notice of the Remains of Vertebrated Animals occur- 

 ring in the Tertiary Beds of Norfolk and Suffolk. By Edward 

 Charlesworth, F.G.S. &c. 



(From the Sixth Report of the British Association for the Advancement of 



Science.)* 



The author brings forward this paper, principally with a view 

 to substantiate the fact, that some of the marine fossiliferous 

 deposits on the eastern coast of England, belonging to the 

 tertiary epoch, contain the remains of extinct and existing 

 species of terrestrial Mammalia, clearly contemporaneous with 

 the shells and other organic bodies in association with them. 

 In 1835 the author described a newly-discovered bed o,' 

 fossils,f separating the crag from the London clay, at various 

 localities in Suffolk, which he proposed to call "Coralline 

 Crag, 1 ' suggesting, at the same time, the term " Red Crag" 

 as an appropriate designation for the overlying ferruginous 



* The geological relations of the crag fossils described in the New Series 

 of the Mag. Nat. Hist, will he readily understood by a reference to the pre- 

 sent article. Ed. 



fSee London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, August, 1835. 



