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journal on a Cycad from the middle Tertiaries of Provence. 

 In 1866 the same journal published another "Notice sur les 

 plantes fossiles des calcaires concretionnes de Brognon," 

 and the same year we find him spreading his wings yet more 

 widely in his " Genres de vegetaux actuels constates a l'etat 

 fossile," which appeared in the Bull. Soc. Botanique. We also 

 find him contributing on similar subjects, though enlarging 

 their range as he advances, to the Congresses of Lyons and 

 Stockholm. At the same time the Tertiary strata continue to 

 be the favoured fields to which he mainly limits most of his 

 earlier as well as later researches. We now reach a time when 

 he personally crossed my path and made my acquaintance. 

 At a very much earlier date I had worked out, as far as was 

 then possible, one of the most remarkable fossils of the 

 Yorkshire coast, and prepared a well-illustrated memoir on 

 the subject of the Zamia gigas, assuming that to be the fossil 

 of which my father and I had gathered some remarkably fine 

 examples from the Yorkshire coast, between Runswick Bay 

 and Skinningrave. After many strange adventures this 

 memoir ultimately disappeared from the hands of my old 

 friend Edward Forbes, no one knowing either how or 

 whither. Somewhat similar specimens had now attracted 

 notice on the Continent, and especially fixed the attention 

 of M. Saporta, who arrived at a different conclusion from 

 that to which I had been led ; a conclusion still subjudice. 



Near that time I had commenced my explorations 

 amongst the fossil plants of the Coal-measures, and especially 

 arrived at some important conclusions at variance with 

 those taught by Brongniart, and, it followed, held by every 

 man who had been a student under Brongniart, who had 

 arrived at the determination that they were nearly all 

 phanerogams. This opinion was also held by Saporta, 

 Grand-Eury, and by Renault. This controversy brought 

 the first of these three observers and myself very near to 

 each other, being carried on in the most friendly manner. 



