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waited long, and might have been waiting yet had not my 
memory been quickened by reading Mr Clement Reid’s paper 
on some of the Norfolk Pliocene deposits, in which he gave lists 
of the seeds he had found in them, which reminded me that 
in the vegetable debris from Fillyside, lying by so long, were 
many seeds which might be determined as readily. I there- 
fore hunted up the remainder of my gatherings in 1869-70, 
and subjected them to such new processes of cleaning and 
reassorting such material as I had learned in the interval, 
and found I could make much more of it now than I could in 
1869-70. The mass of vegetable debris consisted chiefly of 
fragments of wood—all rounded and water-worn, same as 
small gravel, and much coated with iron rust. This I boiled in 
oxalic acid, which cleaned them thoroughly, and then I began 
to pick the seeds out of it. But besides the seeds I found frag- 
ments of mosses, elytra of beetles, and what surprised and 
delighted me greatly, many Carboniferous Lycopod spores. 
Seeing such good results, I went back to Fillyside in 1888, 
and lifted several large lots, and washed and sorted the 
organic remains in the best way known to me. The material 
lifted in 1869-70 was from near the same place whence Mr 
Miller lifted the shells in 1854. The material lifted in 1888 
was from a point a little farther to the east, but from the 
same positions as described by him; and also from nests of 
shelly debris on the top of a small cliff of boulder clay that 
rises a little above high-water mark, about a hundred yards 
still farther to the east. | 
Having narrated the circumstances that led to these re- 
searches, I will now briefly summarise the results obtained. 
1. Relics of sea life. These consisted chiefly of shells. 
These Mr Andrew Scott has kindly undertaken to name, list, 
and describe, and to him I confidently assign them. The 
Ostracoda and Foraminifera are as yet undetermined. 
2. Waifs from the land, chiefly crumbs of wood rounded 
by attrition; seeds, sprigs of mosses, and elytra of beetles. 
These waifs of the land were in greater numbers than we can 
suppose to have fallen into the sea accidentally from the land 
near the shore or been wafted into it by the winds, and I 
think they came in chiefly by a small burn, called in modern 
