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GEOLOGY {continued). 



DONATIONS. 



A fine series of Minerals. — Presented by H. S. F. Taylor, Esq. 



Various Sponges in Flint. — Presented by Mrs. Taylor. 



Trigonia costata, Ostrea ; Inferior Oolite, Leckhampton. Coal 

 fossils, Lepidodendron, Calamites. Several Corals, &c. ; Wenlock 

 Limestone. Corals and Encrinite stems ; Mountain Limestone. 

 Two Ferns ; Coal Ironstone. Shells, Anthracosia. Scales of fish, 

 and Ammonites , Upper Lias. Ammonites ; Gault, Echini and 

 shells; Chalk, Surrey. Leaf; Tertiary, Bournemouth, Hants. 

 Pinites Eggensis, Miocene, Isle of Skye. — Presented by Miss Taylor 



GEOLOGY (continued). 



PURCHASES. 



Solaster Moretonis, cast ; Great Oolite, Windrush, Gloucestershire. 



Homalonotus delphinocephalus, cast, largest example known ; 

 Wenlock Limestone, Dudley. 



Large plant, Thuytes or Auracarites, rare ; Thuytes, branches, 3 

 specimens; T. fallax ; Cidaris (?) ; Hemipedina Bechei (?), with 

 attached spines; Fish jaw with teeth; Astacus (?), entire; 

 Crustacean (Carapace) ; Fish, Insect bed, Lyme ; Cestraciont, 

 shark's head and teeth, large ; Lower Lias, Lyme, Dorset. 



Neritoma sinuosa, Cerithium, Pterocera, Plicatula eclimoides, 

 Lucina Portlandica, Sowerbya, Thuytes, Trigonia incurva and 

 gibbosa ; Portland Oolite. 



Baculites Fanjasii, Cretaceous; environs De Valognes, Manche, 

 France. 



An illustrative series of Sponges from the Upper Green Sand, 

 Warminster, Wilts (46 specimens), viz., Chenendopora, 

 Holodictyon capitatum, Pachypoterion compactum, Doryderma 

 dichotomatum, D. Benetti, Nemantinion calyculum, Hallirhoa 

 agariciformis, H. costata, Kalpinella, Rhopalospongia, Siphonia, 

 &c. 



Very large Aptj'chus, operculum of a gigantic Ammonite ; two small 

 fish, Pholidophorus (?) ; Crustacean, body and tail ; Penasus 

 liassicus ; Lyme, Dorset. 



pleuromia tellina, Pholas, Exogyra, Cycadeoidea microphylla (?), 

 Ammonites triplex ; Portland Oolite, Isle of Portland. 



BOTANY. 



Paludella squamosa (Bird), extinct British Moss; Castle Howard, 

 Yorkshire. — Presented by the Rev. P. B. Brodie. 



