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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE 



Mr. Hubert Laws, a Member of the Council of the North 

 of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 

 having presented to that body a large collection of original 

 drawings and papers which had belonged to the late Mr. 

 William Hutton, the Council caused them to be examined 

 and reported on. 



The collection was found to consist of a great 

 number of the original drawings, from which had been 

 taken the engravings illustrating Lindley and Hutton's 

 " Fossil Flora/' and a large number which had not been 

 published, but which, from pencil notes on them, had 

 evidently been prepared under their supervision and with 

 the intention of forming a continuation of that work. 



These drawings represent important and sometimes 

 unique specimens ; it was therefore resolved by the 

 Council to publish sixty-four of them, which were thought 

 most likely to prove of value to students of Fossil Botany ; 

 and the task of editing the work was entrusted to Mr. 

 G. A. Lebour, who is solely responsible for the views 

 expressed in his descriptions accompanying the plates. 



Mr. Lebour was at the same time entrusted with 

 editing the Catalogue of the specimens in the Hutton 

 Collection of Fossil Plants, which is the " Catalogue" 

 referred to in the present work. 



