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— a vegetarian, an eater of tropical fruits, his teeth tell us 

 that this was liis character. Owen says " He resemhled the 

 Tapir. In size the ancient Ikitish Tapiroid quadruped must 

 have surpassed the largest Tapir of South America or Sumatra, 

 by one-third. The i-emains of this Coryphodon were dredged 

 up from the bottom of the sea between St. Osyth nnd Harwich 

 on the Essex coast. There is no doubt aa to the fossil having 

 been originally imbedded in the Eocene tertiary formation of 

 the Harwich coast." We will indicate hia old sphere of actiou 

 in another No. (36). • 



80. At the Fisheries Exhibition preparations were b^ing 

 made for an international fete in celebration of the " Silver 

 Wedding of Her Majesty's eldest daughter, the Crown Princess 

 of Germany." We then received an invitation from Sir .lames 

 Maitland to visit his celebrated Howieton Fisheries near 

 Stirling, Scotland. There was some difficulty in the way of 

 deciding whether to remain at the Exhibition and witness the 

 fete, or to take a pleasure trip to the *' Land o' Cakes." I had 

 been present at many great fetes, but I had not been in my 

 native land for 17 years. I therefore accepted the Scottish 

 Knight's kind invitation. Accordingly, at the appointed time, 

 or rather before it, as it is my wonr, I was at Euston Stpvire 

 Railway Station. Here were twenty gentlemen, — English, 

 Scotch, Irish, Canadian, Australasian, American, French, Nor- 

 wegian, Swedish. Two palace cars are engaged. The arrange- 

 ments for our comfort and enjoyment provided by our noVde 

 host are princely, beginning, middle and end. I would here 

 observe before starting that I have already gone along the road 

 between London and Liverpool five times in daylight observing 

 the geology with a good geological map : so that I can indicate 

 the formations as they occur at any time — day or night. I 

 would farther notice that in the Nos. proceeding as far as 18, 

 v.*8 have been generally "ascending" as Geologists term it, 

 going from the older to the newer. Vide Table. As we proceed 

 from London to Liverpool we are " descending " or reversing 

 the order. We start on the London Clay. At the Williston 

 junction of the city and London and Liverpool railway we 



