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Geologist of New South "Wales (the late Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, and 
now Mr. E. E. Pittman), the Rev. H. H. Winwood (Bath), the 
Rev. P. B. Brodie (Warwick), Edward Crane, Esq. (Brighton), 
and the Curators of the Museums of York, Whitby, Scarborough, 
Malton, Leicester, and Worcester, for facilities in studying the 
important collections under their charge. The unique collections of 
Mesozoic fishes in the Universities of Munich and Naples must he 
particularly mentioned as having afforded very special aid, thanks 
to the kindness of Professor K. A. von Zittel and of Professor E. 
Bassani. 
ARTHUR SMITH WOODWARD. 
Department of Geology, 
November 15th, 1895. 
List of Collections. 
In addition to the Collections enumerated in Part I. (p. xxix) 
and in Part II. (p. xxiii), the following are also referred to in 
the present volume:— 
BecJdes Collection .—A large collection comprising fossil fishes 
especially from the Wealden of Sussex, purchased from the executors 
of the late Mr. S. H. Beckles, F.R.S., of St. Leonard’s, 1891. 
John Broivn Collection. —Numerous Pleistocene Yertebrata and 
other fossils chiefly from Essex and Suffolk, collected by the late 
Mr. John Brown, of Stanway, and bequeathed by him to the late 
Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., who presented them to the Museum in 
1859. 
Croizet Collection. —Specimens from the Tertiaries, chiefly 
Miocene, of Auvergne, Erance, purchased from the Abbe Croizet in 
1848 and 1849. 
Damon Collection. —The private cabinet of the late Mr. Robert 
Damon, of Weymouth, comprising fossils from the neighbourhood 
of Weymouth, purchased from his executors, 1890. 
Jesson Collection. —A series of fossils from the Cambridge Green¬ 
sand, Cambridge, collected by Mr. Thomas Jesson, of Northampton, 
and obtained by purchase, 1894. 
Leeds Collection .—A large collection of Yertebrata from the 
Oxford Clay in the neighbourhood of Peterborough, made by Messrs. 
Charles E. Leeds and Alfred N. Leeds, of Eyebury, and obtained by 
purchase, 1890-95. 
