Figs. 4, 8, 9, & 13. The berries of an extinct genus of plants, (named _Wetherellia_, by Mr. Bowerbank, in honour of Mr. Wetherell of Highgate,) which, from their appearance when split asunder, are called by the local collectors, "coffee berries." The natural affinities of these fossils are not determined. Figs. 5, 6, & 7. The fruit or seed-vessel of a palm allied to the recent Nipa, a native of the Molucca Islands; the fossil is therefore named _Nipadites_.[10] See the next Plate. [Footnote 10: Medals of Creation, vol. i. p, 180.] Figs. 10, & 12. Fossil fruits of plants belonging to the Cucumber tribe (hence named _Cucumites_, by Mr. Bowerbank).[11] [Footnote 11: Plate xiii. of Mr. Bowerbank's work on the Fossil Fruits of the London Clay, contains numerous figures of Cucumites.] Fig. 11. A transverse section of Fig. 16. Figs. 14, 18, 24, & 26, are varieties of Cucumites. Fig. 16. Calcareous wood from Oxfordshire. Fig. 19. Wood mineralized by copper (Cupreous fossil-wood of Parkinson), from Souxson, in Siberia. Fig. 18. Fossil fruit resembling the seed-vessels of plants of the genus _Cupania_ (_Amomocarpum_, of Brongniart; _Cupanoides_, of Bowerbank); M. Brongniart considers the original to have been related to the Cardamoms (_Amomum_). Fig. 21. Probably a species of Cupanoides. Figs. 20, & 22. Pericarp of a fruit; its affinities unknown. Fig. 23. A piece of pyritous wood. Fig. 25. A rolled specimen of _Nipadites_. Figs. 24, & 26. Two fruits of plants of the Cucumber family (_Cucumites_). Figs. 27, & 29. Specimens of the stems of a species of extinct Club-moss (_Lycopodites squamatus_); fossils of this kind are abundant in the pyritous clay of Sheppey. Fig. 28. A fragment of silicified wood, rounded by attrition; from the gravel-pits at Hackney. * * * * * Figs. 15, & 17. I have purposely reserved the description of these fossils for this place, because notwithstanding their close resemblance to the aments or cones of a pine or larch, which led the earlier collectors to regard them as fruits, they do not belong to the vegetable but to the animal kingdom, being the hardened excrementitious contents (_Coprolites_) of the intestines of the fishes, with whose remains they are associated in the chalk.[12] The specimens figured are from Cherry Hinton, in Cambridgeshire; similar fossils occur in the Chalk and Chalk-marl of Sussex, Kent, &c. [Footnote 12: See Medals of Creation, vol. i. p. 432; and Dr. Buckland's Bridgewater Essays, vol. ii. pl. 15.] [Illustration: Plate VII.] PLATE VII. Fossil Fruits of Palms.