38 REMINISCENCES OF 



paper was entitled : " Accompanying Remarks to a 

 " Section of the Upper Lias and Marlstone of York- 

 " shire, showing the Limited Vertical Range of the 

 " species of Ammonites and other Testacea, with 

 "their Value as Geological Tests." This memoir 

 obviously dealt with part of the series of strata that 

 had been the subject of my first paper, read two 

 and a half years previously. The author was 

 evidently ignorant of my memoir, but he had 

 arrived at conclusions identical with those which I 

 had announced in May 1834. 



This contribution of Mr. Hunton's was at once 

 printed, as was my second communication, but 

 oddly enough the latter was tacked on to the end 

 of my first paper, which had lain neglected in one 

 of the Society's pigeon-holes. There is no great 

 difficulty in realising what must have occurred. 

 In 1834, either through the influence of the Pre- 

 sident, or because the Council shared his esti- 

 mate of the small value of my communication, the 

 latter was thrown overboard as not deserving to 

 be published. 



When, in 1836 a new observer, ignorant of what 

 I had done, reported to them the existence of con- 

 ditions which they had in practice previously refused 

 to admit on my authority, they now felt obliged 

 to publish his paper, and doing so compelled them 

 in common justice to publish mine also. The arrival 

 of my second paper gave them the opportunity for 

 this and the separate productions of Hunton and 



