276 The Knowledge of Fossil Shells 



Mr. Milne I Mr. Richard Taylor, jun. . . I 



Mr. T. VV. Moore .. ..4 Mr. Tliomas .' 1 



Mrs. Morris 1 Mr. John Thurtell . . . . 1 



Mr. James Parkinson . . 3 The latt Mr. Trimmer , . 1 



Rev. Thomas Rackett . . 2 Mr. Dawson Turner . . . . 2 



Jolin Rogers, Esq I Mrs. Tylee . , . . . . 4 



Mr. James Ryan .. .. 2 Mr. W." Walter .. .. I 



Mr. Salmon 2 Mr. Weatherell .. .. 1 



Mr. Jonathan Salt . , . . 2 Mr. Henrv Warburton . . 1 



Mr. ShelJield 1 Mr. R. Weeks 1 



Mr. Vv^illiam .Smith . . . . 1 Lady Wilson 1 



Mr. G. B. Snow .. ..2 Mr.Winsor 1 



Robert Sparrow, Ef^q. . . 2 Dr. Wood 5 



Rev. Henrv Steinhawer .. 10 Samuel Wright, Esq. .. 7 



Rev. Dr. Sutton . . . . 3 



I indulge the hope, sir, that the above respectable List will 

 enable nie, with some effect to plead the cause of Geological 

 Science, in inducing country Gentlemen of leisure, and ingenious 

 Ladies in particular, to imitate the praise-worthy conduct of those 

 mentioned, and turn their attention to the very interesting facts 

 around them ; viz. of there being imbedded in almost every thick 

 stratum or rock, those of Limestone in particular, an almost infi- 

 nite number of individuaLS/;e//v,/i6'Zo?;^i'//o- to a vast mtmher of new 

 species, and even netu genera, which have never yet been noticfed 

 by writers, long and ardent as has been the research of Natura- 

 lists" since the days of the illustrious Linnajus, in describing every 

 recent species of Shells, throughout the known world. 



Besides this important ol)ject, of increasing our knowledge of 

 the vast number and variety of the organized and once living 

 Beings, with which the all bountiful Creator has seen fit to peo- 

 ple this terraqueous Globe; the entombment of an extensive series 

 of species, most of them in vast numbers, each in distinct strata, 

 !ieing upon each other in a determinate order, through consider- 

 able tracts of countrv, and perhaps almost throughout the earth's 

 surface, irresistil^lv kadsus to the fact, of the very sloiv and pi'o- 

 gress fvej'onnal ion oj' the suUdmatter of the Earth, andenlarge^our 

 comprehensions of its great Author, by making us in a consider- 

 able degree acquainted with, events long prior to, and which yet 

 are in perfect imison with the sacred writings, which commence 

 not with details of the creation of the Earth itself, much less of 

 its earlv and jirogressively entombed animal Inhabitants, but 

 with what more innncdiately concerned our early fore Fathers to 

 know, viz. the origin of the existing species of Plants, Animals 

 and Men, t/pon the surface of the earthy ball, and in the waters, 

 now covering only a part of this surface, iustead of such being 



previously. 



