﻿INTRODUCTION. 
  XX111 
  

  

  Geologist 
  of 
  New 
  South 
  Wales 
  (the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  S. 
  Wilkinson, 
  and 
  

   now 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  F. 
  Pittman), 
  the 
  Eev. 
  H. 
  H. 
  Winwood 
  (Bath), 
  the 
  

   Eev. 
  P. 
  B. 
  Brodie 
  (Warwick), 
  Edward 
  Crane, 
  Esq. 
  (Brighton), 
  

   and 
  the 
  Curators 
  of 
  the 
  Museums 
  of 
  York, 
  Whitby, 
  Scarborough, 
  

   Malton, 
  Leicester, 
  and 
  Worcester, 
  for 
  facilities 
  in 
  studying 
  the 
  

   important 
  collections 
  under 
  their 
  charge. 
  The 
  unique 
  collections 
  of 
  

   Mesozoic 
  fishes 
  in 
  the 
  Universities 
  of 
  Munich 
  and 
  Naples 
  must 
  be 
  

   particularly 
  mentioned 
  as 
  having 
  afforded 
  very 
  special 
  aid, 
  thanks 
  

   to 
  the 
  kindness 
  of 
  Professor 
  K. 
  A. 
  von 
  Zittel 
  and 
  of 
  Professor 
  F. 
  

   Bassani. 
  

  

  ARTHUE 
  SMITH 
  WOODWAED. 
  

   Department 
  of 
  Geology, 
  

   November 
  15th, 
  1895. 
  

  

  List 
  of 
  Collections. 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  Collections 
  enumerated 
  in 
  Part 
  I. 
  (p. 
  xxix) 
  

   and 
  in 
  Part 
  II. 
  (p. 
  xxiii), 
  the 
  following 
  are 
  also 
  referred 
  to 
  in 
  

   the 
  present 
  volume 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Beckles 
  Collection. 
  — 
  A 
  large 
  collection 
  comprising 
  fossil 
  fishes 
  

   especially 
  from 
  the 
  Wealden 
  of 
  Sussex, 
  purchased 
  from 
  the 
  executors 
  

   of 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  S. 
  H. 
  Beckles, 
  F.E.S., 
  of 
  St. 
  Leonard's, 
  1891. 
  

  

  John 
  Brown 
  Collection. 
  — 
  Numerous 
  Pleistocene 
  Yertebrata 
  and 
  

   other 
  fossils 
  chiefly 
  from 
  Essex 
  and 
  Suffolk, 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  

   Mr. 
  John 
  Brown, 
  of 
  Stanway, 
  and 
  bequeathed 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  the 
  late 
  

   Sir 
  Eichard 
  Owen, 
  K.C.B., 
  who 
  presented 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  in 
  

   1859. 
  

  

  Croizet 
  Collection. 
  — 
  Specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Tertiaries, 
  chiefly 
  

   Miocene, 
  of 
  Auvergne, 
  France, 
  purchased 
  from 
  the 
  Abbe 
  Croizet 
  in 
  

   1848 
  and 
  1849. 
  

  

  Damon 
  Collection. 
  — 
  The 
  private 
  cabinet 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Eobert 
  

   Damon, 
  of 
  Weymouth, 
  comprising 
  fossils 
  from 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  

   of 
  Weymouth, 
  purchased 
  from 
  his 
  executors, 
  1890. 
  

  

  Jesson 
  Collection. 
  — 
  A 
  series 
  of 
  fossils 
  from 
  the 
  Cambridge 
  Green- 
  

   sand, 
  Cambridge, 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  Jesson, 
  of 
  Northampton, 
  

   and 
  obtained 
  by 
  purchase, 
  1894. 
  

  

  Leeds 
  Collection. 
  — 
  A 
  large 
  collection 
  of 
  Yertebrata 
  from 
  the 
  

   Oxford 
  Clay 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Peterborough, 
  made 
  by 
  Messrs. 
  

   Charles 
  E. 
  Leeds 
  and 
  Alfred 
  N. 
  Leeds, 
  of 
  Eyebury, 
  and 
  obtained 
  by- 
  

   purchase, 
  1890-95, 
  

  

  