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It was therefore with great pleasure we learnt from Mr. 
S. S. Buckman that a “ buried forest” had been discovered 
at Westbury, by Dr. E. W. Prevost, who most kindly 
forwarded several large samples of the peat. These have 
been carefully washed and examined for determinable 
remains, with exceptionally good results: numerous shells, 
a few bones, some insect remains, and several seeds 
rewarded our researches. 
Mr. Buckman also sent for inspection a small series of 
shells which he had obtained from the same bed. We 
must cordially thank Dr. Prevost and Mr. Buckman for 
their kindness. Our thanks are also due. to Mr. Hinton 
for determining the vertebrate remains; to Mr. Clement 
Reid, F.R.S., for naming the plants; and to Mr. Water- 
house for examining the insects. 
The results fully bear out the view that in order to 
obtain a full series of the fauna, it is necessary to examine 
samples from all parts of the deposit. The sorting action 
of a stream is only too well known; and whilst the larger 
forms will be found in one part, the smaller will be drifted 
to another; marsh forms will predominate towards the 
margin, whilst aquatic forms will occur in the deeper 
water. Thus it is with the Westbury deposit: some 
species were abundant in one sample but entirely absent 
from another, and all the caddis worm-cases were found 
in the same sample that yielded the vertebrate remains. 
There are thirty-nine species of mollusca, six of vertebrata, 
fifteen plants, and four insects. No fish remains were 
found. 
INVERTEBRATA. 
MOLLUSCA. 
Agriolimax agrestis (Linn.) This well-known slug is 
represented by three examples of the internal shell. It is 
known from numerous Pleistocene and Holocene deposits. 
