Proceedings of the British Association. 327 
An account of the Fossil Organic remains of the southeast 
coast of Cornwall and of Bodmin and Menheniott, by C. W. 
Peach.—The line of coast examined commences at Veryan, four 
miles south of 'Tregoney, and extends eastward by Gorran, the 
Blackhead, and Fowey, to East Looe. The cliffs are composed 
throughout of quartzose and slaty rocks, hitherto supposed by Mr. 
Conybeare and others to be destitute of fossils. But along the 
whole line, Mr. P. has detected traces of Brachiopodous shells and 
corals, and the stems of encrinites are of frequent occurrence. 
From Veryan to Gorran the quartzose rocks rarely contain traces 
of shells, but in the calecareous}slates in contact with dykes of 
greenstone at Blackhead, remains of corals resembling Turbino- 
lepsis, and of the genera Cyathocrinus, Spirifera, and Orthoceras 
occur. Eastward, at Pridmouth, a fine specimen of the Platy- 
crinite was found, with the column, pelvis, arms,,&c. In the 
slate quarries of Fowey, remains supposed to be those of fish, 
and corals of the genus Favosites were detected. Near Polman, 
occur encrinital stems nearly a foot long, together with remains 
of trilobites, corals of the genera Cyathophyllum, and Favosites, 
Spirifers, Orthoceras, and a fossil with a structure resembling that 
of the Sepiade. At Pentlooe, an equal-valved bivalve, resem- 
bling Uncula, and a species of Orthis, have been found; and at 
East Looe another fine specimen of an encrinite, with column, 
arms and tentacula attached; also specimens of Cyathocrinus, 
Fenestella, Turbinolopsis and Orthis. At Bodmin, the author has 
detected encrinites in the slate quarries, and in those of Menhe- 
niott in Liskeard the eye of a trilobite in good preservation. On 
the beach below the cliffs at Port Mellin, near Mevagissey, the 
author observed traces of a lacustrine deposit, containing roots 
and branches of trees, and the elytra of beetles, exposed after a 
heavy gale. ~ 
~Aletter was read from Mr. T. B. Jordan, of the Museum of 
Economic Geology, on copying Fossils by a galvanic deposit.— 
In applying the method ordinarily used in electrotyping, some 
difficnity was experienced by the author in consequence of the 
irregutar form of the fossils, parts of which would not relieve 
from the wax or plaster matrix in which the copper is afterwards 
deposited. Mr. J. therefore adopted a compound of glue and 
treacle, (used by printers for their inking rollers,) as the material 
of the moulds, the elasticity of which admits of its leaving the 
