iv PREFACE. 



I wish to express my warmest thanks to Miss Maud Neal 

 for the beautiful drawings of fossils which illustrate the 

 book, and to Professor Grenville A. J. Cole, F.R.S., for his 

 kindness in reading the manuscript, and for valuable 

 suggestions received from him. I have also to acknowledge 

 my indebtedness to Mr. H. J. Osborne White's new edition 

 of the Memoir of the Geological Survey of the Isle of Wight, 

 1921 ; and to thank Mr. J. Milman Brown, of Shanklin, 

 for the three photographs of Island scenery, showing 

 features of marked geological interest, and Mr. C. E. 

 Gilchrist, Librarian of the Sandown Free Library, for 

 kindly reading the proofs of the book. 



J. CECIL HUGHES. 

 Mar, 1922. 



