64 REPORT—1849. 
Pencarra Point, and extend to beyond the Black Head, St. Austel Bay. Outside these 
are a series of hard quartzose rocks, commencing at the Cairn near Goran Haven, 
passing across to Caerhayes Beach, thence to Gerrans Bay; these contain Corals and- 
Crinoids very rare, Orthides, and other bivalves more plentifully, and Trilobites not 
uncommon: there are also at these places small beds of limestone, a Jarge series of 
conglomerates, in which are rolled blocks of limestone filled with crinoids and Ortho- 
ceratites; these rocks are a little out of the general line of strike. On the north side 
of these fish-beds are a very extensive range of fossiliferous ones, resting conformably 
on them; these may be traced from Whitsand Bay to St. Veep, and St. Winnow, and 
completely occupy the county via Bodmin, Liskeard, &c., to the sea on the north side, 
Although all the other organisms mentioned as occurring in the southern rocks are 
found in these, no traces of Trilobites have been noticed until reaching Bodmin; and 
at Menheniott, a bed exists there containing thousands. The author had also found 
organic remains rather plentiful at St. Columbporth, and at Newquay in the North 
Channel; at the latter place splendid Turbinolopsides, Crinoids, Trilobites, and a mag- 
nificent spine of an Onchus in clay-slates, associated with beds of impure limestone. 
He remarked upon the very few fish remains that agreed with those found in the 
old red sandstone (one good specimen of Asterolepis, the species selected by Mr. 
Hugh Miller to illustrate ‘The Footprints of the Creator’) and those described in 
the ‘ Silurian System.’ He concluded by saying that when Sir H. Dela Beche made 
his survey of the county, only three or four places were known to be fossiliferous ; now 
three-fourths of the county had been proved to be so, and in many places abundant : 
he trusted the day was not far distant when a new section would be run through the 
county, and the age of the rocks settled. 

Notice of the Discovery of Beds of Keuper Sandstone containing Zoophytes in 
the Vicinity of Leicester. By Joun Puan. 
In this paper the author describes the position of certain marls in the new red sand- 
stone laid open by the cutting of the Leicester and Swannington railway, and the 
existence in them of markings in the sandstone which he refers to the genus Gorgonia. 
The sections show a thickness varying from 2 to 59 feet of superficial and detrital 
deposit, below which appear clays, marls, shaly marls and sandstones, offering a total 
thickness of about 200 feet, of which the first 150 feet contain masses and blocks, some 
of them weighing many tons, of the sienites, porphyries, and carboniferous limestone 
of Charnwood Forest and the neighbourhood. Amongst these are gray shaly sand- 
stones containing the fossils developed between two beds of red clay which thin and 
swell out very irregularly. Between the sandstones are bands of fine marl enveloping 
the bodies described by the author as the polypidoms of a coralline, and these occur 
in great profusion on the surfaces of nearly every band, the bands being also furrowed 
by other markings. The polypidoms lie confusedly and in all instances occur as sili- 
ceous casts, the delicate organization of the cells being obliterated. Associated with 
them at times are thickly-set small granular concretions, giving the surface the appear- 
ance of shagreen. 
The strata containing the fossils are considered to represent the keuper sandstone, 
both by their similar character and their distance from the lias. The author sug- 
gests for these fossil markings the name Gorgonia Keuperi. 
On the Discovery of a Living Representative of a small Group of Fossil Volutes 
occurring in the Tertiary Rocks. By Lovreui Reeve, F.L.S. 
In the Eocene portion of the tertiary series a small group of Volutes occurs, distin- 
guished by a peculiarity of form and sculpture which is not found in any living species 
collected hitherto. The well-known Voluta lima of the British tertiary strata may be 
regarded as the type of this group ; but there are other fossil species of the group which 
has been arranged as a subgenus by Mr. Swainson, under the title Volutilithes. 
During the late expedition of H.M.S, Samarang, a single living example of this type, 
