86 ON THE FOSSIL TREES IN A MARL PIT AT HANLEY. 



fossil known to us as trigonacarpon was the fruit of this 

 plant. I hold in my hand a portion of one of them 

 which Mr. Hampton found in the interior of one of the 

 trees. 



Had time permitted I might have told you something 

 respecting the curious fishes which lived in the ancient 

 carboniferous seas. Judging from the vast quantity of 

 remains we find in this district, the waters would appear 

 to have swarmed with animal life. Fishes of strange 

 forms, and very different from what we are accustomed 

 to see at the present day, sported amongst the calamites 

 or basked in the shade of the sigillaria. 



