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XIX. An Account of some organic Remains found near Brentford, 

 Middlesex. By the late Mr. William Kirby Trimmer. Com'- 

 municated in a Letter from Mr, James R. Trimmer ^o the 

 Right Hon, 5'/r Joseph Banks, Bart, K.B, P,KS, 



Read March 4, 1813. 



Sir, 

 jMy late brother, in digging clay near Brentford, for the 

 manufacture of bricks and tiles, frequently found the remains 

 of animals and extraneous fossils, which you, Sir, with other 

 Gentlemen of the Royal Society, very often inspected, and the 

 interest which you took in them added much to his ardour in 

 collecting them. 



A few days before he was attacked with the illness which 

 terminated in his death, he had drawn up an account of the 

 different strata in which the organic remains in his cabinet 

 were found deposited, with the intention of submitting it to 

 you. His long illness and other circumstances have delayed 

 my communicating to you earlier the enclosed letter, which I 

 found amongst his papers; and I request, Sir, that if you 



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