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E. — The structure in this specimen appears to me better exhibited 

 than in any which I have ever seen. It is from Somersetshire, and is in 

 my cabinet. [This drawing is missing.] 



(Signed) J. Phillips. 



As a P.S. comes the following : — 



Dear Hutton, — I have written as you wished my remarks on my 

 drawings, and hope they may be of use. But I have scrawled (currente 

 calamo as befits one who writes concerning Calamites), and you must 

 round sentences or rub them out as you may find most convenient. I 

 have some other odd things in your line at home. 



J. P. 



III. 



The following letter is endorsed " unintelligible," by 

 Hutton : — 



Buxton, 27 th June, 1836. 



My deab Hutton, — I have found, or rather my sister, to-day in the 

 midst of the great mass of Derbyshire Limestone — which corresponds to 

 the lower portion of the Mountain Limestone series of Yorkshire — some 

 interesting specimens of marine plants which, perhaps, may be worthy of 

 notice in one of the forthcoming parts of the " Fossil Flora." You know I 

 have been always on the look out for marine plants, because this is pre- 

 cisely the part of fossil botany which appears to me the least explored. 

 And it is probable that we shall find yet a considerable number of them 

 in the marine calcareous strata, which yield so few land plants. I there- 

 fore make no apology for sending you very careful drawings of the best 

 portions, with some remarks. [Here come full detailed references 

 which it would be useless to print without the drawing. The latter is 

 carefully preserved. He goes on :] — The plants I suppose to be marine, 

 notwithstanding the aspect of [Nos.] five and six. They lie in smoky, 

 laminated limestone, holding Producta Martini, and in the midst of 

 much more massive beds of light grey, compact limestone, only partially 

 crinoidal and shelly. 



Yours, etc., 

 (Signed) J. Phillips. 



Here follows a P.S. on personal matters which we omit. 



