^^6 Queries rcspceli/ig British Strata. 



highly obliged to Mr. Winch, or any other gentleman who is 

 possessed of the Book and the two engraved sheets mentioned, 

 who would send to you exact copies of these sinking accounts,, 

 witii such introduction and descriptive matter concerning them, 

 dates of publication, &c. as may effectually secure to their authors 

 the future credit of them, when recorded in your useful deposi- 

 tory of matters of fact regarding the British stratification. 



On looking through your last number, and that of the work 

 in which Mr. Winch originally wrote, I regret, not to find any 

 of the requested information from the respectaI)lo keeper of the 

 Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge, as to whether " charred 

 wood, mutilated fish, pentacriuites, &c." are rarely found in 

 that neighbourhood, in the undisturbed suhslratum to the hard 

 or flintless chalk (whether named Chalk-marl or Gait, is very 

 immaterial), or whether some of these Reliquia have not been 

 taken from the superficial alluvial* Clay ?. 1 presume however 

 again, respectfully to prefer the above request to the Rev. Mr. 

 H., or to any other of the numerous friends of science within 

 the walls of Cambridge, and hope that some of these will favour 

 me and your Readers in general with a full elucidation on this 

 point; and which will greatly oblige 



A Constant Reader, 



* Til ;\notlier cominunication w!iic!i I sent you a few days ago, recom- 

 niciuliiig a more genera! rescarcli after Fossil Shells, I have endeavoured to 

 give tliosc dirtinguisl)ii)2 marks, by whieh Mr. W. Smith and those who 

 :uc tieadin;; in liis step's in the minute examination of the British strata, 

 are enabled to distini;iiisli the alluvial shells and other orj;anic Keip.ains, 

 fran> tiiose lodged in the strain, and to 9l)0w the essential importance of 

 these discriminations. — Havimj; mentioned Mr. Smith, permit me to add 

 liqrc, tliat I have very lately seen st,nck up in Mr. Gary's window, No. 131, 

 Strand, a List of iDore than 880 Subscribers- to Mr. Smith's long-expected 

 " Ueiineation cf the Strata of luigiand and Wales," &c. with an assurance 

 that the same ?vill very soon he issued to them. If on perusing this re- 

 spectable Li_stof Narncs, it shoidd he found almost entirely barren of names 

 faMiiliar to us of late years, as managers of the Geolotiical, Wernerian and 

 other Societies, or writers in thtir Transactions, profcs'-ing to have the same 

 ohjects in vietr, as stimnlated Mr. S. to comiTif nee his labours Qi years ago, 

 this circumstance will not I am siu'c weigh with or induce nnv Gentlemen 

 of true British feelings, and who arc well wishers to the proi^ress of know- 

 ledge, longer to withhold their patronage to a work, of Ijritish origin, and 

 proir.isnig great national advantages in the increased knowledge and itii- 

 proved working of our Mineral treasures. 



LI II. Mr. 



