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By A. J. JUKES-BROWNE, B.A., F.G.S. 



Read May 7th, 1896. 



3TJHE collection, which is the subject of the present 

 communication, consists of fossils which have 

 been obtained from certain localties in North 

 Dorset. It is the combination of several 

 collections made by different persons and 

 presented to the Museum at different times. 

 Mr. Moule informs me that some of the fossils 

 formed part of the original Museum collection, 

 many were given by Mr. Summers, of Stoke 

 Wake, others by the Rev. C. W. Bingham, and 

 others again by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell. 



The fossils attracted my attention when visiting the Museum in 

 1893 under the guidance of Mr. Moule, and I then recognised 

 among them several species which were familiar to me as occurring 

 in the Cambridge Greensand, but which had never been recorded 

 from the south-west of England. Later in that year I discovered 

 the bed from which the fossils had been obtained, and found that 



