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BY S. MARTTN", M.D. 



Head at the General Meetiyig, February bth, 1875. 



IN" this communication on ''Fish Eemains in the Bristol Old 

 Bed," I -wish simply to lay before the Society certain 

 Ichthyolites found during the past two years in that formation, at 

 its nearest point of accessibility to us ; and I do so without any 

 knowledge as to how far others may have preceded me in the same 

 field. 



The Bristol Old Bed Sandstone, in the area mapped out by 

 Mr. Sanders as our coal-field district, affords a much wider 

 subject, both as to fossil remains and stratification, than I am 

 now alluding to. Since, however, the Old Bed Fish bed of 

 Portishead (the position of which I was able to determine in 

 1867) has yielded to my unfortunately scanty opportunities a few 



