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FOSSILS 
THE EOCENE FORMATION OF BRACKLESHAM BAY 
SELSEY, AND BOGNOR. 
b) 
In giving the accompanying list of fossils from Selsey and Bracklesham Bay, I 
beg to return my grateful thanks to Lord Enniskillen, Sir P. G. Egerton, Bart., 
and Professor Agassiz, for their kind assistance in elucidating the fishes. I am 
much indebted to my friend Frederic Edwards, Esq., for his valuable help in 
completing the Catalogue of Shells. I must also return my thanks to J. S. 
Bowerbank, Esq., F.R.S., and G. A. Coombe, Esq. The shells have been ex- 
amined and described by Mr. J. D. C. Sowerby, F.L.S., and I am under great 
obligations to W. Lonsdale, Esq., F.G.S., for his excellent description of the 
Corals. 
The fossils from Bognor, except the Fusus tuberosus, which is in the museum 
of Mr. Bowerbank, and a few marked with a star, I have found myself. Serles 
Wood, Esq., F.G.S., first pointed out to me the Xiphidium as occurring in such 
perfect preservation at Bognor, single valves having been found before at Hamp- 
stead and Highgate, by N. Wetherel, Esq., F.G.S. 
My estimate of the rarity of the species is drawn from several cabinets, and 
I have arranged them as in coin collections. This method may not only be 
satisfactory to the palzontologist, but useful in showing the distribution of the 
species through the various localities. 
V.C. Very common. 
C. Common. 
R.1. R.2. R.3. R.4. Rare in different degrees, those marked R.4. being 
almost unique. 
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