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was subjected to denudation by the sea, or it may be by the 
gentle flow of “the streams which swift or slow draw down 
the ezonian hills,’ and the spores were restored again to the 
light of day, and became the sport and playthings of tides 
and storms on the sea-shore for a time, but at last they 
were laid for a second time in a dainty grave with the dead 
shells of the Raised Beach period, where they lay till I came 
in 1869 or 1888 and blessed them with a resurrection which 
promises to be final as far as we can judge; but perhaps 
not, as the ways of Nature are the same now as in the 
beginning, and will be the same world without end. Who 
can say what vicissitudes may yet befall man’s museums, 
or even man himself, in the changes yet to come! 
Mr Kidston has kindly examined the spores from Filly- 
side, and been able to recognise nine forms, as follows :— 
Triletes I., II., VI., XI. (grouped spores), XII, XIITI., 
mAY, UY. 
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Figures of the different forms may be seen in the plates 
by Mr Kidston attached to the paper “On Spores” in Pro- 
ceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Elinburgh, ix., 85. 
The following species of Mollusca are given by Mr Miller 
as found by him at Fillyside in 1854 :— 
Buccinum undatum. Saxicava rugosa. 
Littorina littorea. Tapes pullastra. 
be litoralis. Venus perforans. 
Patella vulgata. Cardium edule. 
» pellucida. . echinatum. 
Purpura lapillus. Ostrea edulis. 
Nassa incrassata. Scrobicularia piperata. 
Turretella communis. Nucula nucleus. 
Trochus cinerarius, Tellina solidula. 
Murex ertnaceus. Pecten opercularis. 
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Mya truncata. 
(Serpula and Lepralia) Solen siliqua. 
Anomia ephippium. 
The following is a list, by Mr Andrew Scott, of the shells 
observed in the material from the Raised Beach at Fillyside. 
The classification and nomenclature followed is that adopted 
by Dr Jeffreys in his “ British Conchology ”: 
