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neighbourhood, found out some valuable particulars about these 
remains. The conclusions of Dean Buckland, then Professor of 
Geology at Oxford, led Sir Everard to abandon many of his 
former conclusions. The labours of the learned men of the 
day were greatly assisted by the exertions of Miss Aiming, an 
enthusiastic collector of fossils. This lady, devoting herself to 
science, explored the frowning and precipitous cliffs in the 
neighbourhood of Lyme-Regis, when the furious spring-tide 
combined with the tempest to overthrow them, and rescued from 
destruction by the sea, sometimes at the peril of her life, the few 
specimens which originated all the facts and speculations of 
those persons whose names will ever be remembered with 
gratitude by geologists. 
Probably our readers are already more or less familiar with the 
drawings of the fossilised remains of Ichthyosauri to be seen in 
almost every text-book of geology. (Fig. 3 is from Owen’s British 
Fossil Reptiles.) But we recommend all who take an interest in the 
world’s lost creations to pay a visit to the great Natural History 
Museum, at South Kensington. The fossil reptile gallery contains 
a magnificent series of Ichthyosauri, about thirty in number. Of 
these a large number were obtained through the exertions of the 
late Mr. T. Hawkins, a Somersetshire gentleman, who was a most 
ardent collector of fossil reptiles, and who devoted himself with 
great enthusiasm and unsparing energy to the acquisition of a 
