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Mr. Edward Charles-worth, F.G.S., and afterwards purchased 

 by the British Museum, Museum of Practical Geology, 

 Woodwardian Museum, and the York Museum. The col- 

 lection of the Rev. H. Canham is now in the Ipswich Museum; 

 Mr. W. Colchester, F.G.S., has obtained many specimens,, 

 still in his private cabinet ; and the unique series at York 

 is due to the generosity of Mr. William Reed, F.G.S., who 

 has for many years made special efforts to render the col- 

 lection complete. The only supposed British Pliocene 

 Vertebrate discovered elsewhere than in the Eastern 

 counties is the ElepJias mei'idionalis from Dewlish, Dorset, 

 of which a tooth was presented to the British Museum by 

 Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, F.G.S., in 1888. 



The Mammalian and other fossils of the Norfolk Forest 

 Bed have long been collected, and among the principal 

 explorers of this deposit may be mentioned the late 

 Mr. Samuel Woodward, the late Revs. C. Green, J. Layton, 

 and S. W. King, the Rev. John Gunn, F.G.S., Mr. Randall 

 Johnson, Mr. R. Fitch, F.G.S., Mr. A. Savin, of Cromer, 

 Mr. J. J. Colman, of Corton, Mr. James Backhouse, F.G.S., 

 of York, and Mr. Clement Reid, F.G.S., of the Geological 

 Survey. The Green and Layton Collections are now in 

 the British Museum ; that of the Rev. S. W. King, in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology ; and those of the late 

 Samuel Woodward and the Rev. John Gunn, in the 

 Norwich Museum. The collections of Messrs. Fitch, Savin,, 

 and Backhouse are still in the possession of their respective 

 founders, and that of Mr. Randall Johnson is now for the 

 most part in the cabinet of Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., of Corton. 



Pleistocene Mammalia occur in all Museums, and a 

 general sketch of their distribution, so far ascertained 

 to the year 1869, is given by Professor Boyd Dawkins, 

 F.R.S.* The large collections of the late Mr. John Brown,, 

 of Stanway, from Essex ; of Mr. J. J. Owles, of Great 



* W. Boyd Dawkins, ' On the Distribution of the British Post- 

 glacial Mammals,' Quart. Journ. Geo/. Soc, vol. xxv, 1869, p. 192. 



