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subscribers. You will likewise see a new mine 

 of fossil fishes in the clayey schist of the coal 

 formation at Newhaven, on the banks of the 

 Forth, near Edinburgh. You can also make 

 arrangements to visit the museums of York, 

 Whitby, Scarborough, and Leeds, as well as 

 the museum of Sir Philip Egerton, on your 

 way to and from Edinburgh. You may, like- 

 wise, visit the museums of London, Cam- 

 bridge, and Oxford; everywhere there are 

 fossil fishes ; and traveling by coach in Eng- 

 land is so rapid, easy, and cheap, that in six 

 weeks or less you can accomplish all that I have 

 proposed. As I seriously hope that you will 

 come to England for the months of August 

 and September, I say nothing at present of any 

 other means of putting into your hands the 

 drawings or specimens of our English fossil 

 fishes. I forgot to mention the very rich col- 

 lection of fossil fishes in the Museum of Mr. 

 Mantell, at Brighton, where, I think, you 

 could take the weekly steam-packet for Rot- 

 terdam as easily as in London, and thus ar- 

 rive in Neuchatel from London in a very few 

 days. . . . 



