Vill PREFACE. 
Dr Lightfoot coming to ask if it were possible to verify the 
statement of Woodward, that what had been taken for the 
bones of Christians massacred by the Turks at their taking of 
Philadelphia in Lydia consisted in reality “of various Bodies, 
chiefly Vegetables, incrusted over and cemented together by 
sparry and stoney Matter.’ The specimen was easily found by 
reference to Woodward’s Catalogue, and the question answered. 
These old collections contain specimens of great historical 
and geological interest, of which we hope by and bye to give a 
fuller account. 
T. M7KENNY HUGHES. 
