A Stratigraphical Account of the Section from Atherfield to Rocken End, on the South-west coast of the Isle of Wight

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The remarkable section which is the subject of the following pages had been described in papers which I published in 1824 and 1833, with such lists of the fossils as I could then supply; but the great attention which the corresponding portion of the strata beneath the chalk has of late years excited, under the name of Terrain Néocomien , made me wish to examine the place anew, and to obtain a more adequate collection. Having made some progress, I employed a very active collector of specimens during the last year, and was about to return to the Island to continue my work, when I found that I should interfere with the operations which Captain Ibbetson had then begun for the purpose of extending his well-known model of the “Back” of the Isle of Wight, to Atherfield. My task has been since concluded, and I now lay the result before this Society. It is necessary to mention here, that the collection of specimens upon this coast is impracticable without able assistance; so that it is only by residence, or frequent visits, and the aid of a quarryman, that a collection fairly representing the contents of the strata can be obtained‡. Until experience convinced me of this difficulty, I was disappointted by finding that so few additions had been made to my lists of fossils, published many years before*; and though my present collection, from the time and labour employed upon it, is probably the most complete that has yet been made

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