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breathing inhabitants implies that the Sigillarian forests were not 
so low and wet as we are apt to imagine. 
The little land-shell, specimens of which with the mouth entire 
have now occurred to the author, is named by him Pupa vetusta. 
Dr. Dawson found entire shells of Physa heterostropha in the stomach 
of Menobranchus lateralis, and hence he supposes that the Pup@a may 
have been the food of the little reptiles the remains of which are 
associated with them. 
Two examples of Spirorbis carbonarius also occurred ; these may 
have been drifted into the hollow trunk whilst they were adherent 
to vegetable fragments. The Myriapod is named Xylobius Sigillarie, 
and is regarded as being allied to ulus. 
The reptilian bones, scutes, and teeth referable to Dendrerpeton 
Acadianum bear out the supposition of its Labyrinthodont affinities. 
Those of the new genus, Hylonomus, established by Dr. Dawson on 
the other reptilian remains, indicate a type remote from Archegosaurus 
and Labyrinthodon, but in many respects approaching the Lacertians. 
The three species determined by the author are named H. Lyellii, 
H. aciedentatus, and H, Wymani. 
4. «On the Occurrence of Footsteps of Chirotherium in the Upper 
Keuper of Warwickshire.” By the Rev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S. 
True Chirotherian footsteps do not appear to have been hitherto 
met with in the Keuper of Warwickshire ; but a specimen of Keuper 
sandstone showing the casts of a fore and a hind foot of Chirotherium 
was lately turned up by the plough at Whitley Green near Henley- 
in-Arden. The breadth of the fore foot is about 2 inches; the hind 
foot is 44 inchesacross. As the New Red sandstone of Cheshire, so 
well known for its fine Chirotherian foot-tracks, certainly belongs to 
the upper part of the New Red series, it may now be further corre- 
lated with the Upper Keuper of Warwickshire, the latter having 
yielded true Chirotherian foot-prints. 
January 4, 1860.—Prof. J. Phillips, President, in the Chair. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. “On the Flora of the Silurian, Devonian, and Lower Carboni- 
ferous Formations.” By Prof. H. R. Goeppert, For. Mem. G. 8. 
The number of all the fossil plants which the author has described 
as belonging to these formations (chiefly from Germany) amounts 
to 184 species: Algz, 30 species; Calaminez, 20; Asterophyllitez, 4 ; 
Filices, 64; Selagineee, 39; Cladoxylez, 4; Noeggerathie, 8; Sigilla- 
rie, 6; Conifer, 6; Fruits (uncertain), 3. 
Prof. Goeppert has seen only Alge from the Silurian Rocks. 
Sigillaria Hausmanni is one of the most interesting of the Lower 
Devonian plants, and Sagenaria Weltheimiana of the Middle Devo- 
nian. ‘The Upper Devonian has several terrestrial plants. Of the 
Lower Carboniferous Flora, the following are the most important and 
characteristic plants :—Calamites Transitionis, C. Roemeri, and Sage- 
naria Weltheimiana. ‘The last name supersedes Knorria imbricata. 
2. “On the Freshwater Deposits of Bessarabia, Moldavia, Walla- 
chia, and Bulgaria.” By Capt. T. Spratt, R.N., C.B., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
Capt. Spratt first referred to the many isolated patches of fresh- 
