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published two figures (plate 2, fig. 6) and (plate 3, 

 fig- 7) f a flowerlike fossil identical with that 

 which I described in my York memoir. Young's 

 figures had attracted no especial attention until 1834, 

 when my father collected further and finer specimens 

 of the same objects. In 1835 I had gone down to 

 Runswick Bay, from which the fossils had been 

 obtained, to see if I could get new examples of these 

 remarkable organisms, which I had succeeded in 

 doing. But as yet no definite conclusion could be 

 arrived at respecting their nature. My friend, the 

 late Mr. James Yates, F.G.S., also obtained a fine 

 series of the same objects, which he ultimately sold 

 to the Geological Museum of the Jardin des Plantes 

 of Paris, where the specimens now are. Shortly 

 after the publication of the above mentioned brief 

 communication by the Yorkshire Society, I wrote 

 a much more detailed and liberally illustrated one for 

 one of the London societies, but which somehow 

 fell into the hands of the celebrated botanist, Robert 

 Brown. This memoir had subsequently an eventful 

 history. Brown was so cautious a man that he left 

 behind him when he died a mass of drawings and 

 memoranda that ought to have been published years 

 previously. In the hands of such a man my memoir 

 had no chance. In it I had figured and described all 

 the specimens within my reach that were calculated to 

 throw light on the morphology and botanical affinities 

 of the objects, the conclusion at which I had 

 permanently arrived being identical with that 



