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wish, that the beautiful subject which I have attempted to introduce 
had fallen into abler hands. No one is more desirous, though many 
are more capable to persuade the rising generation to cultivate the 
beauties of nature, and a taste for the early poetry of England, with 
their inseparable concomitants—piety, gentleness, and “ good-will 
towards men.” 
ARTICLE IV. 
THE FOSSIL FLORA OF GREAT BRITAIN, 
Or Figures and Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains found in a Fossil State in 
this Country. 
BY JOHN LINDLEY, F. R. S, &C. AND WILLIAM HUTTON, F. G, S, &C. 
Quarterly Numbers, Price 5s. fid. 
It is some time since two numbers of this work reached us, and we 
very much regret having so long omitted to notice their contents. It 
is our candid opinion, however, after a careful inspection, that the 
work is one of much merit. Nor shall we be accused of flattery, 
when we say that no persons in this country are more capable of do¬ 
ing justice to the subjects than the two authors engaged upon it. 
Their plan and object, and their schemes for accomplishing the one 
and effecting the other are certainly deserving of the highest com¬ 
mendation. The various vegetable productions here brought toge¬ 
ther and figured, lead back the mind to days long since passed away, 
when, although now found at a great depth in the earth, they grew 
and flourished on the surface of our world, like the vegetables of the 
present day. The Authors remark, in No. 10, which appeared last 
October, “it was a part of the plan laid down when we commenced 
this work, to take the opportunity afforded by the appearance of each 
succeeding volume, to state such general opinions as we might be 
led to entertain on the subjects embraced ; accordingly, it is our in¬ 
tention at the present time to detail some views we have been indu¬ 
ced to take of the circumstances under which the vegetable fossils of 
the Carboniferous formation have been deposited and mineralized, 
together with a general sketch of the rocks comprised in the term 
“Coal Measures;” in the structure and composition of which, vege¬ 
table remains form so important a part, as to give an economical va¬ 
lue to them far surpassing any other. In doing this, we beg it may 
be held in view by our readers, that our references will be made ex- 
elusivelv to the great Coal field of the North of England. We have 
