50 OCCURRENCE OF THE SKELETON OF THE 



Warren, I should refer to this variety, as suggested by 

 Dr. Johnston in his " Eastern Borders." 

 Carex distans, L. Near Warren Mills. Apparently new to 



the district emhraced in Dr. Johnston's " Flora." 

 Poa nemoralisj L. forma. Coquetdale, above Alwinton. 

 Among other species observed of minor interest, I may men- 

 tion Silene noctiflora and Papaver argemone, by the new works at 

 Chollerford, probably introduced. Viola lutea var. amcena, Carter 

 Fell. Vicia lathyroides, by the Alwine, two very small speci- 

 mens. SclerocMoa rigida, near Wooler Water. Carex muiicata, 

 near Hexham, and Kyloe Crags. I gathered the same near 

 Ovingham at an earlier period of the year. 



yi. — Memorandum of the Occurrence of the Sheleton of the Bottle- 

 nose TF/^tifZe(Hyperoodon Butzkoff, Lacepede), and of the Skull 

 of the Grampus (Delphinus Orca, Cuvier) in the Bed of the 

 Tyne. By Dennis Embleton, M.D. 



In the month of May last Mr. Clephan, of the Gateshead Ob- 

 server^ informed me that certain Marine Store Dealers of Gates- 

 head had got " a great haul of old bones" out of the river- 

 Having visited the shops indicated, I found in one what its owner 

 designated as " the back part of a whale, and some links of his 

 back." Inspection at once made it clear that the dealer had mis- 

 taken the end of the animal, and that the mass of bone, which he 

 had at considerable profit exhibited to the curious at a penny a 

 head, was not a pelvis, but in reality a cranium, and that of a 

 Bottle-nose Whale. It closely resembled, in general configuration, 

 (excepting that the lower and part of the upper maxillary bones 

 were wanting), the skull of the Uyperoodon ButzTcoff, which is 

 kept in the subterranean part of the Museum of the Natural 

 History Society of Newcastle. Together with the skull were 

 some caudal vertebrse entire, and some fragments of ribs. 



