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THE GEOLOGIST. 
"Anno 1617, 9 Maii, 15 Jac— That tlie rivers of Wisbcche and all the 
branches of tlie Nene and West Water be cleansed and made in bredth and 
de])th as much as by autieut record they have been." 
The bones above referred to were taken from a peat-soU of a dark brown 
colour. 
In the same paper is a notice of a part of an elephant's skull with two grinders, 
and fragments, two feet in lengUi, of the horns of a large species of deer, sup- 
posed to be those of megaccros by the author. Tiiese last mentioned fossils, 
the author observes, have no comicction with the remains of beaver, but were 
found in a stratum of clay half a mile east ward of Chatteris, of the anti(iuity of 
which he can form no idea, whereas those of the beaver belong to a stratum 
which he thinks may be referred to a period uot very distant even in the history 
of our country. 
The titles of the plates describe the specimens as then being in the possession 
of Prof. E. D. Clarke, of Cambridge.— I. A. B. 
The Third and Fifth Days of the Mosaic Nauhative. — When examin- 
ing the Silurian rocks in the south of Scotland, a fact has often struck me 
wliieh I am at a loss to understand. The whole of the organic remains found 
in these rocks, with the exception of marine alga, were, according to the 
Mosaic narrative, creations of the fifth day ; the terrestrial vegetation, 
accorcUng to the same authority, was created on the third day. Notwith- 
standing, we find no trace of the thii-d day's creation in any of the Silurian 
formations, and very few in the Devonian, and not until we enter on the Car- 
boniferous system (formed thousands of centuries after the Silurian) do the 
" grass and herbs yielding seed and the fruit-trees yielding fruit" appear. 
Any of the readers of The Geologist, harmonizing the two teachings, would 
confer a favour on Argus. — Laud-plants have left their remains in the upper 
Silurian, and, for w4iat we know, in tlie Lower Silurian too, at least we have as 
low down as the horizon of the Lmgula-flags veins of anthracite and bituminous 
exudations, although we can not yet positively state the sources from which 
those substances have been derived. Land-plants are plentiful in some Devonian 
beds both in the British Islands, Europe, and in North America. 
Live Lizard imbedded in a Seam of Co.vi. — In the month of August, 
1818, when the workmen were sinkmg a pit at Mr. Eenton's colliery near 
Wakefield, and had passed tlu-ough measures of stone, grey " buist," blue stone, 
and some thin beds of coal, to the depth of one hundred and fifty yards, they 
came to the seam of coal, about four feet thick, which they proposed to work. 
After excavating about three inches of it, one of the mhiers struck his pick 
into a crevice, and, having shattered the coal around hito small pieces, he dis- 
covered a lizard about five inches long. It continued very brisk and lively for 
about ten minutes, and then di-ooped and died. — See " Philosophical Magazine," 
vol. m., p. 377. (C. J.) 
Collecting Fossils from Workmen. — Dear Sir, — Could you infom me 
in your next number what is a fair price to pay workmen in Chalk-pits for such 
fossils as Cidaris, Cyphosoma, Spondylus, sharks' teeth, fish, &c. ? I was in- 
formed that a penny each was the regular charge, but I can only obtain the 
commonest fossUs, as Mieraster, Galerites, Pccten, or Tcrebratula, at this price. 
— Yours truly, C. Evans, Hampstead. — We have frequently bought common 
and refuse fossils of quarrymen in obscure localities at the prices named, but in 
pits where the workmen are sought after for the fossils tliey obtain in their 
daily labours, the prices, from the very fact of there being a ready market for 
those articles, naturally rise. Neither do we think it fair to the workmen, if 
they take pains to obtain good speehnens, to attempt to buy their better and 
pence are prized by their purchasers when placed in theii' cabinets at as many 
rarer 
Many specimens bought for a few 
