Vlll PREFACE. 



Dr Lightfoot coming to ask if it were possible to verify the 

 statement of Woodward, that what had been taken for the 

 bones of Christians massacred by the Turks at their taking of 

 Philadelphia in Lydia consisted in reality " of various Bodies, 

 chiefly Vegetables, incrusted over and cemented together by 

 sparry and stoney Matter." The specimen was easily found by 

 reference to Woodward's Catalogue, and the question answered. 

 These old collections contain specimens of great historical 

 and geological interest, of which we hope by and bye to give a 

 fuller account. 



T. M C KENNY HUGHES. 



