170 Note on Canon Jackson's Bequest of Fossils. 
Miocene specimens from Bordeaux and Val d’Arno, will be found 
to be very beautiful. The Evcene specimens of fossil fish, insects, 
spiders, and plants from Aix in Provence are all very curious, and 
many of them very rare. There are also some remarkable fish 
(some of them very minute), and well-preserved plants from Monte 
Bolea. 
There are many rare specimens amongst the London Clay fossils 
from Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and from Bognor, with some 
very perfect fossil crustacea. 
Wiltshiremen will be specially gratified with. the fossil sponges 
from the Chalk of Bowerchalk and other localities in the county, 
some of them new to science. The Upper Green Sand from the 
neighbourhood of Warminster is well represented, and there are two 
drawers of magnificent Blackdown fossils—amongst these a slab of 
- minute characteristic shells of great beauty. 
Amongst the Kimmeridge Clay fossils are good examples of the 
teeth of the genus Gyrodus. 
The Coral Rag series will be very acceptable to our collection, 
supplying several species till now wanting. The two Bradford Clay 
drawers contain fossils from a locality—Yatton Keynell—not 
generally known to geologists. They are from a quarry formerly 
belonging to our first President, Mr. Poulett Scrope. 
The Great Oolite fossils are chiefly remarkable for numerous 
specimens of the minute forms from this stratum, worked out and 
arranged with most particular care. We would direct attention to 
some fine fossils from the Coal beds and Carboniferous Limestone, 
also to the Silurian fossils, with mauy excellent specimens of 
Trilobites. 
It is very desirable that the finer specimens from the Wiltshire » 
portion of the Jacksonian Collection should, without delay, be in- 
corporated in the County Collection, as now shown in the Museum, 
but the rooms, as well as the cabinets of the premises at Devizes, are 
absolutely congested, and it is thus impossible to carry out an ar- 
rangement which would greatly add to the value, as well as to the 
educational power, of this part of the Museum. An attempt was 
made to add some of the finer specimens from Canon Jackson’s 
