164 Miscellaneous. 



2. ' Shelly Clay dredged from the Dogger Bauk.' By John 

 Walker Stather, F.G.S. 



The Dogger Bank fishermen frequently get in their nets a tough 

 peaty material, which they call ' mooring.' In a paper published 

 in the ' Essex Naturalist,' April and July, 1909, this ' moorlog ' 

 was described by Mr. H. Whitehead and Mr. II. H. Goodchild, with 

 a report on the plant-remains by Mr. Clement Held, F.R.S., and 

 Mrs. Eleanor Held. 



In looking over some recently dredged ' mooring ' brought in by 

 a Hull trawler, the Author noticed that, adhering to the specimens 

 of ' moorlog,' was a dark silty clay, full of marine shells. These 

 specimens of ' moorlog,' with the associated shelly clay, Avere 

 dredged in lat. 55° 24' K., and long. 3° 10' E., at a depth of 

 20 ffithoms. 



A collection of these shells was submitted to Mr. Clement Keid, 

 who stated that they are all assignable to very shallow-water species, 

 and probably flourished just beneath low-water level. This and 

 other evidence seems to show that the ' moorlog' in this part of 

 the North Sea rests upon a bed of shelly silt, and the shells in the 

 silt together with the ' moorlog ' point to great changes of level in 

 the North Sea Basin. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Editorial Note. 



It is with great regret that we have to announce the retirement 

 of Dr. GiJNTHER from the co-editorshiiD of the 'Annals,' owing to 

 failing sight. 



For over thirty years Dr. Giinther's valued assistance has always 

 been freely given, and the present writer in particular owes him a 

 deep debt of gratitude for his unfailing kindness and help. 



All readers of the ' Annals' will join in wishing him happiness 

 in his retirement from the multifarious duties of an arduous 

 scientific life, of which the last to be given up was the Editorship 

 of the ' Annals.' W. Fkancis, 



