152 Mr. Trimmer's Account of some organic Remains 



should deem it of sufficient interest, you will do me the honour 

 of laying it before the Ro3^al Society. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 

 with great respect, 



your much obliged humble servant, 



JAMES R. TRIMMER. 



Brentford, Feb. 181 ». 



To the Right Hon, Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, ^c, ^c. &c. 



Sir, 



My collection of organic remains having been nearly formed 

 under your own eye, and my zeal in the collection, and care 

 in the preservation of them, having been greatly increased by 

 the importance which yourself and other Gentlemen of the 

 Royal Society have attached to them, I do myself the honour 

 of presenting to you the following statement of the manner 

 in which they were deposited in the strata where they have 

 been found ; conceiving that however curious the specimens 

 may be in themselves, they can conduce but little to the ad- 

 vancement of geological knowledge, if that part of their history 

 is wanting. 



The specimens have been collected from two fields, not 

 contiguous to each other; therefore to avoid confusion, I shall 

 take each field separately, first describing the strata as far as 

 they have come within my knowledge, and afterwards I shall 

 speak of the organic remains as they were respectively found 

 in those strata. 



The first field is about half a mile north of the Thames at 

 Kew bridge ; its surface is about twenty-five feet above the 



