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Bristol, and Elgin, the British Museum, Museum of Practical 
Geology, and the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. 
Fishes are few and scattered, one prolific stratum only 
having been discovered near Nottingham.* Labyrinth- 
odonts constitute a leading feature of the Warwick 
Museum ; while the Reptilian skeletons met with in the 
Elgin Sandstones are most nearly complete, and have 
been principally obtained through the researches of the 
Rev. George Gordon, LL.D., of Birnie. The only known 
specimens of Ze/erpeton, except the type, were discovered 
by Mr. James Grant, of Lossiemouth, in whose collection 
they are still preserved. 
British Rhetic Fishes and Reptiles occur only in a 
very fragmentary state, and are well represented in the 
British: Museum and the Museums of Bath, Bristol, and 
Leicester. The E. T. Higgins Collection of Aust Cliff 
fossils at Bristol comprises an unique series of teeth of 
Ceratodus ; and the Charles Moore Collection at Bath, 
from the Rhetic fissure near Frome, contains the tecth 
of the British Rhetic Mammal, J/icrolestes mooret. 
Both Fishes and Reptiles are met with in certain 
horizons of the English Lias in several localities. The 
late Mr. Thomas Hawkins collected the Liassic Ichthyo- 
sauria and Plesiosauria forming the greater part of the 
series in the British Museum; and the late Mr. James 
Harrison, of Charmouth, discovered and disentombed the 
fine skeleton of Sce/idosaurus in the same collection. 
Miss Mary Anning was for several years a well-known 
collector at Lyme Regis; Miss Philpot made a large 
collection of Lyme Regis fossils, afterwards presented 
to the Oxford Museum; and Messrs. James and Henry 
Marder, for a long period, supplied many Museums and 
private cabinets from the same locality. The combined 
collections of the late Earl of Enniskillen and Sir Philip 
* E. Wilson, ‘ Notes on the Triassic Beds at Colwick Wood, near 
Nottingham,’ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xliii, 1887, p. 542. 
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