Oeological Society. 295 



mon point of attachment ; in that genus also the fructifying por- 

 tions are destitute of foliage-pinnules, while in Zeillcria there is 

 little difterence between the fertile and barren fronds. In the new 

 genus Ursatopteris, established upon Sphenoptens tenella, Brougn., 

 the barren and fructifj'ing fronds are dissimilar, and the pinna) of 

 the latter bear two rows of alternate urcoolate sporangia, which 

 open at the apex by a small circular pore. Gutbier's Sphenopteris 

 quadridacti/liti's was shown to belong to the genus HymenophiilUtes. 

 The three species were described and their synonymy was indicated 

 and discussed at some length. 



2. " On further discoveries of Footjirints of Vertebrate Animals 

 in the Lower New Red of Penrith." By George Varty Smith, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



Impressions of footprints were noticed by Prof. Harkness and 

 Mr. Binney on the flaggy beds of the New Red Sandstone of Pen- 

 rith, but they were of a somewhat indistinct character and compared 

 unfavourably with those previously found at Brownrigg, in Plumpton. 

 The author therefore gave a description of some which have been 

 recently found in a quarry situate to the north of the Alston road, 

 about tliree and a half miles east of Penrith. The rock consists of 

 strongly false-bedded sandstone underlying the Magnesian Lime- 

 stone. 



Eleven footprints were found in the above quarry. Six of the 

 impressions were discovered in situ ; three of them (all different) 

 were found on one stone near the top of the quarry ; another was 

 taken from a bed 7 feet below that from which the three impres- 

 sions were taken, and the last two were taken from a bed one 

 foot and a half' lower. The remainder were either found by the 

 workmen while quarrying, and set aside, or else discovered by the 

 author and his brother on the newly quarried stones. 



The surface of the two last-mentioned beds was in several places 

 covered with footmarks, which in nearly every case took the same 

 direction, namely from west to east. 



It has been suggested, from the difference in size and depth of 

 some of the impressions, as compared with the length of pace and 

 form of others, that they represent the impressions of several diffe- 

 rent species, if not of different genera, of extinct Vertebrates. 



The author also found in a quarr}^ of the Penrith sandstone in 

 Whinfell Wood, about three miles to the south-east of Penrith, a 

 cast of some footprints less distinct than those previously found, and 

 in an adjoining quarry a stone with several impressions of an entirely 

 different character. 



June 11, 1884.— Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, F.R.S., 



President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 

 1. "On some Zaphrentoid Corals from British Devonian Beds." 

 By A. Champernowne, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



In this paper several sections of Corals from the Devonian system 



