IVTRODUCTION. XIX 
Mr. Edward Charlesworth, F.G.S., and afterwards purchased 
by the British Museum, Museum of Practical Geology, 
Woodwardian Museum, and the York Museum. The col- 
lection of the Rev. H. Canham is now inthe Ipswich Museum; 
Mr. W. Colchester, F.G.S., has obtained many specimens, 
still in his private cabinet; and the unique series at York 
is due to the generosity of Mr. William Reed, F°.G.S., who 
has for many years made special efforts to render the col- 
lection complete. The only supposed British Pliocene 
Vertebrate discovered elsewhere than in the Eastern 
counties is the Evephas meridionalis from Dewlish, Dorset, 
of which a tooth was presented to the British Museum by 
Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, F.G.S., in 1888. 
The Mammalian and other fossils of the Norfolk Forest 
Bed have long been collected, and among the principal 
explorers of this deposit may be mentioned the late 
Mr. Samuel Woodward, the late Revs. C. Green, J. Layton, 
and S. W. King, the Rev. John Gunn, F.G.S., Mr. Randall 
Johnson, Mr. RK. Fitch, F.G.S., Mr. A: Savin, of Cromer, 
Mr. J. J. Colman, of Corton, Mr. James Backhouse, F.G.S., 
of York, and Mr. Clement Reid, F.G.S., of the Geological 
Survey. The Green and Layton Collections are now in 
the British Museum; that of the Rev. S. W. King, in the 
Museum of Practical Geology; and those of the late 
Samuel Woodward and the Rev. John Gunn, in the 
Norwich Museum. The collections of Messrs. Fitch, Savin, 
and Backhouse are still in the possession of their respective 
founders, and that of Mr. Randall Johnson is now for the 
most part in the cabinet of Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., of Corton. 
Pleistocene Mammalia occur in all Museums, and a 
general sketch of their distribution, so far ascertained 
to the year 1869, is given by Professor Boyd Dawkins, 
F.R.S.* The large collections of the late Mr. John Brown, 
ot Stanway, from Essex; of Mr. J..J. Owles, of Great 
* W. Boyd Dawkins, ‘On the Distribution of the British Post- 
glacial Mammals,’ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxv, 1869, p. 192. 
