THE GEOLOGIST. 



JANUARY 1862. 



SOME FOSSIL FEUITS FEOM THE CHALK. 



We are not ashamed to confess our ignorance when we meet with 

 anything we do not understand. On the contrary, we regard such 

 confessions as one of the roads to knowledge ; and we always wished it 

 to be one of the features of this magazine that matters not under- 

 stood should be brought before the world in its pages. We set the 

 example ourselves in the most prominent part of our journal — its 

 opening pages. 



Few things are so little understood as fossil vegetables, and least 

 of all are fossil fruits. 



Some new species from the lower chalk of Rochester have just 



been added to the national collection in the British Museum, and 

 we lay our drawings of them before our readers with the frank 



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