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Glastonbury, in 1859, his recent discovery of Mammalian remains 
from the Rhetic fissures in the Carboniferous Limestone, near 
Frome. 
Elected District or Local Secretary for Ilminster, in 1851, at the 
Evening Meeting of the Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc., held at. 
Weston-super-Mare in September of that year, he communicated 
a paper on the Aptychus ; a favourite subject of his and one to. 
which he was giving his attention during the latter years of his 
life. In this paper, after alluding to the views of Prof. Forbes. 
and Mr. Strickland, who considered it to be the operculum of the 
Ammonite, he establishes its connection with the latter cephalopod 
by the fact that he invariably finds it associated with that fossil ;. 
that he had been able to make out about ten species of Aptychi from 
the Upper Lias at Ilminster, and that a particular form is always. 
allied to a particular species of Ammonite, and has, therefore, 
some as yet unascertained functions in connection with it. He, 
however, doubted whether it was an operculum, giving amongst. 
other reasons that the Nautilus, its nearest ally, does not possess 
any operculum. In a paragraph concluding this paper, he states 
that since he first read it he had learnt that Von Buch had men- 
tioned its discovery in a Scaphite, and that T. Rupert Jones (the 
then Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society) alludes to the 
occurrence of one holding its proper place in an Orthoceras. Thus. 
it was connected with three genera of Cephalopoda, in each of 
which it was destined to perform the same office. 
At a subsequent Evening Meeting held at Taunton during the 
winter of 1850-51, he read a paper “‘ on Microscopic Fossils,” but 
this does not appear to have been published, nor the one read 
at Yeovil (1853) on “ Fossil Infusoria,” (now called Foraminifera). 
At the Taunton Meeting, 1854, in his paper on “ New Brachiopoda 
from the Inferior Oolite of Dundry” he alludes with regret to his. 
removal from his old haunts (the rich geological locality of 
Ilminster), to Bath, the scene of the former labours of Walcott, 
William Smith and Lonsdale. This regret, however, was softened 
