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of the Geological Society and the Geological Survey, and 
others were given to me by the Rev P. B. Brodie, in 
February, 1861; none of them contain plant remains, 
Cypride, Unio, nor fish-scales, such as are noted as 
belonging to bed No. 6 of Mr Brodie’s section, quoted at 
p. 68"; probably the Zsthere occur only in the nodules 
(as at Westbury), and the other fossils in the accompany- 
ing clay or limestone.” 
The shells noticed by Brodie? as resembling Cyc/as are 
Estherie, the variety Brodieana having been named after 
that veteran geologist. Though I am unable to record 
Ostracoda, yet portions of plants, fish remains, fragments 
of lamellibranchs, and A'sthevze were obtained. The plant 
remains, Vazadita lanceolata,* are not abundant. Ostra- 
coda are doubtless present, but they “are by no means 
abundant here” (Brodie). Prof. Rupert Jones in his paper 
“On the Rhetic and Liassic Ostracoda of Britain,” 
records from this locality, Darwinula fassica, and D. 
fiassica var. major, but they’ are stated to come from a 
“dark grey, probably Rhetic shale, ‘above the insect- 
limestone.’”> The fish remains are fragmentary, but not 
uncommon.® Prof. Rupert Jones noticed a “ Pleromya” 
in this bed. 
Five feet two inches of blue and brown shales, which 
soon weather into a marly clay, separate the Astherza-bed 
from the “Insect-limestone,” or Pseudomonotzs-bed. In 
these shales I have not detected organic remains. If the 
classification given by the late Edward Wilson, F.G.S., be 
adopted, the “Insect-limestone” is the highest Rheetic 
stratum in the cliff section, and consequently closes the 
I z.e., in “ Fossil Insects.” 2 ‘Fossil Estherize,” p- 67. 
3 “Fossil Insects,” p. 58, e¢ seg. 
4 Miss Sollas proposes to retain only one specific name, Vazadzta lanceolata, as she has 
found pieces of stem combining the characters either of 1V. /anceolata and NV. petiolata, or 
XN. lanceolata and XN. obtusa ; that is, these stems bear leaves of two kinds, the shapes of 
the leaves being those described by the specific names and figured in Prof. Buckman’s paper. 
5 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. 1. (1894), p. 163. 
6 Vide “ The Geologist,” Vol. i. (1858), p. 376. 
