BRITISH FOSSILS. 



illustration was attempted for the other plates, but the time and 

 labour requisite to produce satisfactory results proved to be so 

 great, that, after the completion of one plate. No. 3 of the Decade, it 

 was considered advisable to have recourse to lithography for the 

 the remainder. 



These lithographs have been so beautifully drawn by Mr. Dinkel, 

 that I trust the result of the experiment may be considered suffi- 

 ciently satisfactory to warrant the employment of this style of 

 illustration in any subsequent Decades devoted to this branch of 

 British Palaeontology. 



P. DE M. Grey Egerton. 



A2ml 8, 1852. 



