20 CATALOGUE OF FOSSIL PLANTS 



from others belonging to local friends, in addition to the draw- 

 ings made and sent to him, sometimes with specimens, often 

 without, by Dr. Hibbert, of Edinburgh; Messrs. Williamson, 

 father and son, of Scarborough; and many others. He had also 

 at hand, for reference and figuring, the now numerous and in- 

 creasing collection of Fossil Plants in the Newcastle Museum, 

 which contained also many specimens from the Somersetshire 

 Coal-field, presented about this time by Thomas Mead, Esq., 

 1834-5; and some very interesting plants from the Whitehaven 

 Coal-field, presented to the Society by Mr. Williamson Peile in 

 1832. 



Mr. Hutton's intimacy with Mr. John Buddie, the eminent 

 viewer, of Newcastle, was of immense advantage to him in col- 

 lecting Coal-measure Eossils, as the Bensham Seam was then 

 worked in Jarrow Colliery, of which Mr. Buddie was head 

 viewer, and he had under him a master-wasteman, Robert 

 Eairley, who was one of the most successful fossil collectors in 

 the North of England ; and to his industry and diligence in col- 

 lecting, Mr. Hutton, and in fact all the local collectors of Eossil 

 Plants, were more indebted for the means of obtaining specimens 

 than to any other person. The shale above the Bensham Coal- 

 seam at Jarrow is exceedingly rich in specimens of numerous 

 genera, and it was from this locality chiefly that Mr. Hutton's 

 specimens were procured. Mr. Hutton had also another collector 

 at the Eelling, where the Low-main Seam was chiefly worked. 

 The specimens from this pit were collected chiefly by William 

 Pearson. Eairley I knew very well, and obtained many speci- 

 mens from him forty years ago, as he collected and sold fossils 

 long after Mr. Hutton had left off collecting, and up to the time 

 the Jarrow pit was laid in. 



The first part of the "Eossil Flora" is dated July, 1831, and 

 the last part was issued for July, 1837. The drawings of the 

 local Coal-measure Eossils were prepared, under Mr, Hutton's 

 direction, by two artists, Prior and Johnson, chiefly by the 

 former. When the arrangement, between Mr. Hutton and Prof. 

 Lindley to publish the "Fossil Elora," was made I am unaware, 

 but it seems to have been agreed on that Mr. Hutton should 



