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of Provincial Museums in the pages of Tue Geologist. I should liave sent you 
a connnuniaition on this subject six months ago had I not entertained the idea 
of publisliiiig, as a separate pamphlet, some observations upon the Condition of 
Natural History Museums tlu-uugliout the kingdom, with suggestions for putting 
some of them "in a more efficient state. 1 have lately visited the Museums of 
Newcastle, West Hartlepool, Whitby, Bcarborougli, Hull, Leeds, Kendal, Lan- 
caster, Preston, Warrington, Manchester, and Ipswich, and in tlie course of a few 
days I piu-pose visiting those of Bristol, Batn, Liverjiool, &c. I have only 
time now to call the attention of your readers to the noble room which has iust 
been added to the Museum at York, and for the erection of which neiirly a 
thousand pounds lias been subscribed. Some time since an enormous Ichthyo- 
saurus was discovered in the neighbourhood of Whitby, and, after a good deal 
of negotiation with the persons into whose hands this extraordinaiy Samian 
remam had fallen, 1 became the possessor of it for the sum of one hiuidred and 
ten pounds. My object in making tlie purchase was the hope that, when brought 
to York, the members of the Yorkshire Pliilosophical Society would raise by 
subscription the above sum, to take the specimen off my hands and place it in the 
Museum. We had just started a subscription when the Rev. D. R. Roundel!, of 
Gledston, Skipton, sent me a cheque for the whole amount, that he alone might 
have the satisfaction of presenting so grand a fossil to the York Museum. It was 
this acquisition that led to the building of the new room. If you have space for 
its insertion you shall have some more Provincial Museum information for yoiu" 
June number. — Edward Chauleswouth (of York)." 
Mammalian Remains.— "In the 'Gentleman's Magazine' for 1757 several 
extnicts from letters conmiunicated by Mr. Collinson, concerning mammalian 
remains, are printed, of which I append a summaiy : — 
" 'At Barton, in Sussex, in July, 1740, some bones of elephants were found. These 
remains were nine feet deep in the giound, and were discovered by some men 
digging a trench in the park. The remains found consisted of various bones, 
" a large tooth (tusk), seven feet six inches in length, wliich, as it lay on the 
ground, was entue, but on taking it up, broke all to pieces." After this several 
more were found in carrying on the trench, particularly the fellow to the before- 
mentioned ivory tooth, exactly of the same length, which being taken up with 
more care, is now to be seen, though both ends were broken off. Also two more 
shorter tusks, of about three feet in length ; a thigh-bone, forty inches long, and 
thirty-one inches in the thickest part. There were several other bones, as the 
knee-pan ; but the most perfect of all was one of the giinders, not in the least 
decayed, with part of the jaw-bone, which together weighed above foiuleen pounds ; 
the upper part of the tooth, where it meets its opposite, was six inches and a half 
long and three inches broad. There were several other bones not here men- 
tioned. 
" ' But what is very remarkable is that these teeth, bones, &c. did not lie close 
together, as one mignt suppose those of a skeleton to do, but at some distance 
asunder ; and the larger tusKs were full twenty feet apart. 
" ' The Rev. Dr. Longwith, minister of Petworth, has most of them, excepting 
one of the largest tusks and one large bone. He was here at the taking of them 
lip, and reasonably concludes they were not tlu'own in by hand, but buried in the 
universal deluge. 
" ' P.S. In the past hard winter there was killed a swan at Emsworth, between 
Cliichester and Portsmouth, lying on a creek of the sea, which had a ring roimd its 
neck, with the King of Denmark's arms on it.' 
" The following are from Letter II. by Mannock Strickland, Esq., Apiil 4, 1741 : 
— ' A few months after the foregoing letter was written, being near Mr. Bid- 
dulph's, I paid him a visit, when I saw the greatest part of one of the gi-eat teeth ; 
it was seven feet and a half long ; and at Dr. Longwith's I saw the other, with 
the rest of the bones mentioned in Mr. Biddiilph's letter, all things agi-eeing 
exactly with his descriptions. I saw also the pit it was digged out of, and 
observed the various strata which run parallel and had never been disturlied. 
" ' Within a quarter of a mile south runs a vast mountainous ridge of hills, called 
