THE GEOLOGIST. 
JANUARY 1862. 
SOME EOSSIL FEUITS TEOM 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 
Fig. 1. 
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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