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Bristol, and Elgin, the British Museum, Museum of Practical 

 Geology, and the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. 

 Fishes are few and scattered, one prolific stratum only 

 having been discovered near Nottingham.* Labyrinth- 

 odonts constitute a leading feature of the Warwick 

 Museum ; while the Reptilian skeletons met with in the 

 Elgin Sandstones are most nearly complete, and have 

 been principally obtained through the researches of the 

 Rev. George Gordon, LL.D., of Birnie. The only known 

 specimens of Telerpeton, except the type, were discovered 

 by Mr. James Grant, of Lossiemouth, in whose collection 

 they are still preserved. 



British Rhsetic Fishes and Reptiles occur only in a 

 very fragmentary state, and are well represented in the 

 British Museum and the Museums of Bath, Bristol, and 

 Leicester. The E. T. Higgins Collection of Aust Cliff 

 fossils at Bristol comprises an unique series of teeth of 

 Ceratodus ; and the Charles Moore Collection at Bath,, 

 from the Rhsetic fissure near Frome, contains the teeth 

 of the British Rhsetic Mammal, Microlestes moorei. 



Both Fishes and Reptiles are met with in certain 

 horizons of the English Lias in several localities. The 

 late Mr. Thomas Hawkins collected the Liassic Ichthyo- 

 sauria and Plesiosauria forming the greater part of the 

 series in the British Museum ; and the late Mr. James 

 Harrison, of Charmouth, discovered and disentombed the 

 fine skeleton of Scelidosaitrus in the same collection. 

 Miss Mary Anning was for several years a well-known 

 collector at Lyme Regis ; Miss Philpot made a large 

 collection of Lyme Regis fossils, afterwards presented 

 to the Oxford Museum ; and Messrs. James and Henry 

 Marder, for a long period, supplied many Museums and 

 private cabinets from the same locality. The combined 

 collections of the late Earl of Enniskillen and Sir Philip 



* E. Wilson, ' Notes on the Triassic Beds at Colwick Wood, near 

 Nottingham,' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xliii, 1887, p. 542. 



