150 PAPEliS, ETC. 



Space stratigi'aphically, and he has named eveiy speclmen 

 which presented sufficient characters. 



It is hardly possible to estimate too liighly tlie value of 

 this work. The collectlon, comparatlvely useless before, is 

 now of great value, both in a scientific and instructive point 

 of view ; and when those portions which are still unar- 

 ranged are afForded space, it will probably be the best 

 collection existing of the important series of rocks to which 

 it belongs, namely the Devonian and Cai'boniferous series 

 of Devon and Cornwall. 



Of the greater part of the remainder of our Geological 

 collection, although Mr. Parfitt has named nearly all the 

 specimens, I regret to be obliged to State that, excepting 

 as a mere reference to name specimens by, or for the tyro 

 in Geology to become acquainted with the forms which are 

 represented in the different series of rocks, it is compara- 

 tlvely useless, for but few of the localities are known, and 

 for the higher purposes of Geology it is absolutely neces- 

 sary that the exact locality and bed of rock in which the 

 individual specimen occurs should be fixed. 



The more friable and delicate saurian and fish remains 

 have, during the past year, been covered with glass. The 

 ouly fossils that now absolutely require protection are the 

 larfcr mammalian remains from the Mendip caverns. Of 

 these mammalian fossils we have a collection of great inter- 

 est, containing many individual specimens which are either 

 unique or nearly so, and many series of teeth and bones of 

 extinct animals which show the variations the animals 

 underwent in their growth. Among these two previously 

 undetermined jaws have been shown to belong to the 

 Spermophilus citellus, or pouched marmot of the Altai 

 mountains, an animal hitherto not found elsewhere than in 

 Siberia. This, among many others, gives an absolute proof 



