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lower valve of an ostrea, all being covered by thousands of 

 specimens of Wehhina irregularis. The specimens of this finelv 

 arenaceous forarainifer do not call for any especial notice, except 

 for their great abundance, the whole surface of the shell appearing 

 white with them ; the chambers also are slightly more oblong 

 than in those specimens previously figured. The majority of the 

 individuals are filled with iron-pyrites and allow the arrange- 

 ment of the stolon-connected chambers to be readily made out, 

 JVehhina irregularis ranges from the Lias* to the present, but 

 I do not remember any previous mention of its occurrence in the 

 Oxford clay. ^ DAVIES SHERBOEN. 



Note. Mr. Robert Formby having shown me a specimen of 

 Gryphcea dilatata which he had obtaiued from the Oxford clay at 

 "Weymouth, covered with a net work of delicate bi-anchiug organisms, 

 I sent it on to Dr. Hinde for examination. The latter fiDding it 

 covered with Foraminifera, forwarded it to Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, an 

 authority upon the subject. The occun-ence of this peculiar form 

 being rare, so low down in the Geological Strata, Mr. Sherborne thought 

 it worthy of record in our local " Proceedings," kindly made a figure 

 of it, and drew up the above note, for which the Club is much 

 indebted to him.— H. H. W. 



Summary of Proceedings for the year 1887-8. 

 Mr. President and Gentlemen, 



Your Secretary has again to begin the record of the Club's 

 Proceedings with the statement that the Anniversary dinner was 

 not held. The committee appointed at the October meeting to 

 make the necessary arrangements did their part, but having 

 received only five names in answer to their appeal, they had not 

 any other alternative but to put it oflT. The papers read at the 



♦ Figured by H. B. Brady, " Proc. Somerset Arch. Nat. Hist. Soc," 

 vol. xiii., p. 232, 1865-6, PI. I., figs. 2 and 3. 



