74 FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE 



(5) Limestones similar to (1), 

 (4) Second Pebble bed, 

 (3) Limestone bed, 



(2) First Pebbly bed with iron fragments, 

 (1) Beds of pale yellowish and cream-coloured Limestone, 

 the whole exposure amounting to 10 feet. 



At the first glance this section does not strike one as being 

 very like that of Upware or Brickhill, for this is altogether a calca- 

 reous series, while the Upware section is in the main a sand series. 

 But the pebble beds (Nos. 2 and 4 of section) are astonishingly 

 similar to our Upware conglomerate of the lower coprolite seam. 

 The general appearance of the two is identical though some differ- 

 ence is found in the greater proportion of iron fragments in the 

 Schoppenstedt rock. Quoting from my pocket-book I find we 

 have "The same angular iron-fragments; the same phosphatic 

 nodules, identical in appearance with those of Upware; the same 

 derived fossils, and in the same mineral condition ; and the same 

 angular fragments of Lydian stones." 



Looking at a series of the indigenous fossils too, their resem- 

 blance to the Upware and Brickhill ones is even more striking, 

 and the aspect of a drawer of Schoppenstedt fossils is almost identi- 

 cal with our Upware series, the adherent rocks being absolutely 

 undistinguishable one from the other. So that although one had 

 thought that our Neocomian phosphatic bed fossils had so peculiar 

 a character that they could at once be recognised amongst any 

 other specimens all over the world, I now fii^^ it necessary to take 

 special care to keep the several sets of Upware, Brickhill and 

 Schoppenstedt fossils separate. 



Looking to the groups of life we find that these also are similar, 

 the same kinds of Sponges and Polyzoa, Brachiopods and Lamelli- 

 branchs being found in the two areas. 



The following list of the Schoppenstedt fossils shews a close 

 affinity between these two deposits : 



