22 CATALOGUE OF PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS, &c. 



Drawers 27, 28, 29. Stonesfield slate with its characteristic fossils. 



Such as Sharksteeth, bones of the Pterodactyl, and sundry bivalves. 



N. B. This is the oldest rock in which have been discovered Mammalian remains, viz. those 

 of Marsupial animals, belonging to the Opossum tribe. 



Drawer 30. Kelloway rock in the Oolite from Wiltshire. 



Including the Pear Encrinite of Bradford, Ostrese, and other bivalves. 



Drawers 31, 32. Kelloway rock and Bath Oolite. Scarborough, Yorkshire, 

 with impressions of ferns, and sundry shells. 



Drawers 33, 34, 35. Oolitic rocks with their characteristic fossils, chiefly from 

 the coral rag and calcareous grit. Oxfordshire. 



Drawer 36. Oxford clay, containing Ammonites and Belemnites with their 

 siphunculus preserved, and sundry other fossils from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Chippenham. 



Drawer 3 7. Portland beds with impressions of worm castings, Isle of Port- 

 land. 



Drawer 38. Portland and Purbeck beds, Dorsetshire. Insect bed, with 

 impressions of insects, Swanage. Kimmeridge clay, and dirt 

 bed, Isle of Portland. 



See Buckland, Geol. Trans, vol. II. p. 395. 



Drawer 39. Kimmeridge clay, from Kimmeridge near Weymouth, and White- 

 cliff, where a few years ago occurred the fire, which was mag- 

 nified by the neighbourhood into a Volcano, but which arose 

 merely from a spontaneous combustion of iron pyrites ex- 

 tending to the bituminous clays in its vicinity. Also the 

 shells and bituminous coal of this locality, and amongst the 

 specimens of the latter, the coal money . 



Drawer 40. Vegetable impressions in sandstone, from Brora, Sutherlandshire. 

 Drawer 41. Jura Limestone, Switzerland, chiefly from Solothurn. 



Drawer 42. Fossils from Switzerland, chiefly from the Jura Limestone. 



For the Oolite, so far as it is developed in England, Conybeare and Phillips' Geology of 

 England and Wales is still perhaps the best guide that can be consulted. 



The name of coal-money is given to small been used either as coins or amulets by the 

 discs of shale, which have apparently been ancient inhabitants, 

 shaped in a lathe ; and are supposed to have 



