128 GEOLOGICAL NOTES. 



I am sending you two or three specimens that possibly 

 may be of use to you. A small leaf -like specimen lobed 

 at the margins, which, however, I fear is not a leaf (unless 

 of some conifer or other), but may throw out the sugges- 

 tion that it may be the dermis of a stem-scale naturally of 

 a concave form but flattened and split at the edges ? ? 



By-the-bye, can you refer me to any papers or else- 

 where where I can obtain a few clear illustrations (to 

 illustrate cases at [Hastings] Museum) of Cycads and 

 fruits, in fact all our series of plants ? Any botanical 

 journal that I could cut up for that purpose. 



Well, please excuse such a long letter and believe me, 

 Yours very truly, 



P. KUFFOKD. 



In the introduction to Volume I. of the 

 " Wealden Catalogue," I published a Geo- 

 logical Coast-Section between Hastings and 

 the Pett Levels with descriptive notes 

 kindly contributed by Mr. Rufforcl (p. xvii.). 

 I also asked him to write a few notes on the 

 manner of occurrence and association of the 

 various plants in the rocks of the Hastings 

 district, and these were incorporated in the 

 final section of Volume II. (p. 238). 



Mr. Rufford was a naturalist in the 

 broader sense of the word; his interest in 

 fossil plants represented but one line of 



