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these delineations, and the microscopic perfection of the 
accompanying botanical dissections, were beyond all praise. 
Mr. Wirts exhibited the plan of a chambered long barrow 
from the neighbourhood of Notgrove, very similar in character 
to that of the Nympsfield tumulus. In this barrow, which 
had been at some time ransacked, one chamber remained 
undisturbed, in which were found the remains of two indi- 
viduals (the skulls much crushed) together with a flint arrow- 
head and a curious rude bead, said to be of Kimmeridge Shale, 
evidently intended for suspension as an ornament or an 
amulet. A bead of a very similar character is figured in 
Greenwell and Rolleston’s ‘“ British Barrows,” as having been 
found in a barrow in the parish of Eyford in this County. 
Dr. Wricurt offered for inspection an Ammonite which he 
had received from the Rev. W. S. Symonps, with the informa- 
tion that it had been found by Major Tuomas on a glacier in 
Thibet, having fallen from the adjacent rocks. The learned 
Doctor recognised it as the “ Ammonites biplex” of Sowzrsy, 
one of the characteristic forms of the Coralline Oolite of the 
Oxford series, and a common Indian fossil. He remarked on 
the wide distribution of this and other forms in space, and 
their limited life in time, and dwelt upon the interesting 
circumstance of the occurrence of the fossil under observation 
on a particular horizon of Jurassic rock at points so remote as 
Great Britain and Thibet. 
The Rev. W. S. Symonps remarking on the observations 
made by Dr. Wricut upon the Himalayan Ammonites, directed 
attention to the geographical distribution of “Cyrena flumi- 
nalis.” 'This shell, which is only known in Europe in the fossil 
state, occurs in the old fluriatile drifts of the Thames valley, 
associated with the bones of the Mammoth and the long-haired 
Rhinoceros. The same shell is found living in the Nile at the 
present day, and Mr. Symonps stated that he had in his 
possession examples taken fram glacial streams high up in the 
Mountains of Thibet. 
