14 BLADDERWORTS AND THEIR BLADDERS. 
their shape. Within there was abundance of debris, but no muddy 
solution. All traces of Entomostraca, except a few plates, jaws, &c., 
had disappeared, though Cyclops was living in the water; the Desmids 
were in full vigour, and alge had grown withinthe bladders, one bladder 
being almost full of Tyndaridea closely coiled. 
Archielos, 
Proceedings of the Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society and 
Field Club. No. 5, Vol. IlI., December, 1877. Dudley: Samuel 
Mills. 
Tuis part brings down the proceedings of the Dudley Society to the end 
of 1877. Itis full of most excellent matter; and other societies may 
learn much from it how to chronicle their proceedings in a satisfactory 
and useful manner. - Judging the Society by this record of its work, it is 
evidently interesting its members in local geology, and placing on record 
facts which will be of use to future geologists. The present part contains 
accounts of the Field Meetings in 1877, which included visits to the 
neighbourhood of Walsall, to Droitwich, where the Rhetic Beds at 
Dunhampstead were examined, the neighbourhood of Dudley, following the 
walk described by Hugh Miller in his ‘‘ First Impressions of- England,” 
to the Stiperstones and the Snailsbeach Lead Mines, to Ludlow, to Ross, 
Chepstow and the Wye, and to Cannock, where they were joined by the 
North Staffordshire Naturalists’ Club. There are papers on “A 
Railway Cutting at Daw End, near Walsall,” by Mr. J. W. Oliver; 
on “A Photograph of a Section of Wenlock Shale from the Wren’s - 
Nest, taken from a sketch under the microscope,” by Mr. Terry; 
‘‘ Analyses of various Limestones,” ‘‘On the Rhetic Section at Dun- 
hampstead Cutting, near Droitwich, and its correlation with the 
same strata elsewhere,” by Mr. W. J. Harrison, F.G.S.; ‘*On Salt,” 
by the Rev. J. H. Thompson; ‘On the Parkfield Fossil Forest,” 
“On an Ink Photograph of the Fossil dAétosaurus Ferratus,’ 
Fraas, ‘‘On the Botany of the neighbourhood of Ross and the lower 
portion of the Wye Valley,” by Mr. Hy. Southall; ‘‘ On the Contents of 
a Hyena’s Den on the Great Doward, Whitchurch, Ross,” by the Rey. 
W. 8. Symonds, F.G.8.; ‘The Bunter Conglomerates of Cannock 
Chase,’ by Mr. W. Molyneux, F.G.S.; and “ Registers of Rainfall in 
1876-7, at Pedmore,” by Mr. EK. B. Marten, the painstaking secretary of 
the Society. These Proceedings are well illustrated. We subjoin, as a 
specimen of the illustrations, woodcuts of the following Rheetic fossils :— 
Fig. 1.—Microlestes Rheticus, Owen. Fig. 10.—Axinus cloacinus, Oppel. 
Fig. 2.—Hy bodus reticulatus, Agassiz. Fig. 11.—Cardium Rheticum, Merian, 
Fig. 3.—Hybodus minor, Ag. Fig. 12.—Anoplophora musculoides, 
Fig. 4—Gyrolepis Alberti, Agassiz. Schlotheim. . 
Fig. 5.—Acrodus minimus, Ag. Fig 13.—Avicula contorta, Portlock, 
Fig. 6.—Sargodon tomicus, Quenstedt. Fig. 14.—Monotis decussata, Goldfuss. 
Fig. 7.—Nemacanthus monilijer, Ag. Fig. 15.—Pecten Valoniensis, Defr. 
Fig. 8.—Saurichthys apicalis, Ag. Fig. 16.—Ophiolepis Damesu, Wright. 
Fig. 9.—Saurichthys acuminatus, Ag. 
In our correspondence will be found an interesting note on these 
Proceedings from the pen of Mr. W. Whitaker, F.G.S. 
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