INTRODUCTION. 
Merchant of London, 'where it new forms no incon- 
Jiderahk Part of that Gentleman^ s very valuable 
Cabinet. 
i/(f, many Tears fince, entertained Thoughts of 
publijhing a dejeriptive Catalogue of all the Fojftls 
there^ by him colledied., but was prevented, as well by 
more neeejfary Attachments as the ’Difficulty of the 
Undertaking : However, it having been intimated to 
him that a concife Account of them would not be 
deemed an unacceptable Appendix to his PLx^NTj®] 
FAVERSHAMIENSES, in avhich fcveral of the 
Shepey Plants are recited, as no fpecial Account of 
ihefe Foffils hath been offered to the Public, and as 
thofe that have been already noted by the before cited 
Authors arc difperfed in their JVorks, and as many 
others have not as yet been publiffed, he complied ‘with 
the Propofal, and fet about revijing his Notes and 
Obfervations, and no'iv offers thi> jhort Account of the 
Difeoveries made there in his annual Vifts for above 
thefe Thirty Tears paji •, at firji folely for the Purpofe 
of colleSiing thefe elegant Bodies, and afterwards to 
fuperintend his private Affairs, having acqiiired fame 
Property in the IJland, not far difiamt from the Cliffs. 
What the candid Reader may expedl in the following 
Catalogue is, a general Account of the 'Variety of the 
Foflil Bodies, both native and extraneous, reduced into 
