The Hutton Collection of Fossil Plants

Abstract

IT has only within the last few days come to my knowledge (indeed only to-day authoritatively) that the Hutton Collection of Fossil Plants, at present deposited in the Museum of the Natural History Society of Northumberland and Durham, at Newcastle, had been named by the curator, Mr. Richard Howse, prior to the compiling by myself of a Catalogue of the Collection, published in 1878 by the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. The labels on the specimens, referred to in the Catalogue, were therefore Mr. Howse's, and not, as I until now imagined, either William Hutton's original ones, or mere copies of them.