22 CATALOGUE OP FOSSIL PLANTS 



elsewhere was drawn up by myself and contributed to the Trans- 

 actions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, 

 Vol. XII. And after the collection had been further arranged, 

 each specimen was named, when possible according to the no- 

 menclature of the "Fossil Flora," and a MS. Catalogue was 

 made, which was placed in the hands of the Council of the 

 Mining Institute in 1876. 



At the request of the Council of the Mining Institute Prof. 

 Lebour drew up a Catalogue from this MS. list, which was pub- 

 lished by the Council of the Mining Institute under the title 

 of " Catalogue of the Hutton Collection of Fossil Plants," by 

 G. A. Lebour. About the same time a series of drawings, which 

 had been originally prepared by Mr. Hutton for a continuation of 

 the "Fossil Flora," or of which some had been rejected by Prof. 

 Lindley as too imperfect for publication, was presented to the 

 Mining Institute. A selection from these drawings was made, 

 and, by order of the Council of the Mining Institute, were pub- 

 lished under the editorship of Prof. Lebour. About twenty -nine 

 of the specimens from which these drawings and illustrations 

 were made are still in the Hutton Collection. The title of this 

 work, to which reference is also made in this Catalogue, is 

 " Illustrations of Fossil Plants, being an Autotype reproduction 

 of selected drawings. Prepared under the supervision of the 

 late Dr. Lindley between the years 1835 — 40, etc. 1877." 



Seventy-two of Hutton's Type-specimens and a counterpart 

 of one of the figured specimens were found in the Hutton Col- 

 lection, and a few other specimens bear a label in Mr. Hutton's 

 handwriting ; and they were the only specimens named in the 

 collection, which numbered fully six hundred specimens, besides 

 pieces of shale of no scientific value. 



The collection has been examined twice by Mr. ¥m. Carru- 

 thers, of the Botanical Department of the British Museum, and 

 twice by Mr. Eobert Kidston, of Stirling, who availed himself 

 of a careful study of this arranged and labelled collection before 

 preparing the Catalogue of Palaeozoic Fossils for the British 

 Museum. 



In 1883, before the removal of the collections of the Old 



