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Ipswich, a fossil tooth in the possession of Mr. Wm. Col- 

 chester, which he had procured at Kyson about two years 

 before, which I recognized as decidedly mammiferous, and I 

 therefore examined attentively the stratum near Woodbridge 

 from which it came, in order to make up my mind whether 

 the deposit really belonged to the London clay. Being satis- 

 fied on this point, I obtained leave from Mr. Colchester to 

 take it to town, and to show it to Mr. Owen, who supposed it 

 to be the molar of an Opossum. I immediately wrote letters 

 both to Mr. Colchester and Mr. Wood, who were then resid- 

 ing near Woodbridge, begging them to search in the sand at 

 Kyson, and endeavour to find other remains of mammalia. 

 The result of their search, after they received my letters, was 

 the discovery of two other fossils. One of these, which I 

 shall call No. 2, was obtained by Mr. Wood, and submitted 

 by him to Mr. Owen, who decided that it was the jaw of a 

 monkey of the genus Macacus, while the other fossil, which 

 I shall call No. 3, was placed by Mr. Colchester in your 

 hands. Shortly after this, being in Scotland, I received let- 

 ters from Mr. Wood, in one of which he told me that it was 

 his intention, jointly with Mr. Owen, to give an account of 

 the newly-discovered Macacus, No. 2. I was well satisfied 

 to hear of his intention, but it was understood between us, 

 that I should reserve to myself the announcement to the Bri- 

 tish Association of Mr. Owen's opinion respecting the first 

 tooth, as well as of other mammiferous fossils from the Red 

 Crag, at Newbourn. You have since stated that you saw^ the 

 Kyson molar two years before (in 1837), in Mr. Colchester's 

 collection, and recognized its mammiferous character. I 

 have no doubt of the correctness of this statement, but I 

 believe that the tooth would have remained unnoticed to this 

 hour, and unknown to the scientific world, and I feel sure 

 that no other mammiferous remains would have yet been 

 discovered at Kyson, but for my visit there in July last. 



At Birmingham, in the last week of August, I com- 

 municated to the British Association Mr. Owen's opinion of 

 the marsupial nature of the grinder first discovered, or No. 1. 

 It was not till after 1 had conversed with Mr. Owen on this 

 subject, at Birmingham, that he put into my hands the Au- 

 gust' number of the ^Magazine of Natural History,' con- 



> Since writing the above, I have been reminded by Mr. Charlesworth, 

 that the printed notices alluded to on the Kyson fossils were from the 

 September number of the ' Magazine of Natural History,' although 

 copies of them were put into my hands before the end of August, at Bir- 

 mingham, and had been sent there in that month by Mr. C. to Professor 

 Phillips, for distribution to members of the British Association, 



