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B. ajjinis, Morris. Including these, there are twenty-three known 

 Carboniferous species of Bairdia. Seven of these are recurrent in 

 the overlying Permian limestones, which have yielded twelve 

 species of this genus. With six Silurian forms, there are altogether 

 thirty-four recorded palaeozoic species of Bairdia. 



4. " Eeport on a Collection of Fossils from the Bowen River Coal- 

 field and the Limestone of the Fanning River, North Queensland.'' 

 By B. Etheridge, Esq., jun., F.G.S. 



The collection on which the present paper was founded had been 

 received from Mr. B. L. Jack, F.G.S. ; and the information furnished 

 by it was supplementary to that obtained from Daintree's collection. 

 The fossils are from three distinct horizons. The author first briefly 

 described the geology of the formations from which the fossils were 

 derived, and stated that the results of his investigations led him to 

 refer those from the Fanning River Limestone to the Devonian, 

 those of the Bowen Biver Coalfield to the Upper Carboniferous or 

 Permo-Carboniferous, and those from the Tait Biver to the Cre- 

 taceous. Twenty-six species of animal remains, chiefly Mollusca, 

 are described in all, twenty of which are from the Bowen Biver 

 Coalfield ; the latter include a fine series of Strophalosice. The new 

 species are Protoretepora Koninckii from the Permo-Carboniferous 

 of Bowen Biver, and Crioceras Jackii from the Cretaceous ; also 

 Strophalosia Jukesii horn, the Carboniferous of New South Wales. 

 The paper included a list of the localities in which the specimens 

 were collected, and a full bibliography of Queensland palaeontology. 



5. " On a Fossil Squilla from the London Clay of Highgate, part 

 of the WethereU CoUection in the British Museum.'' By H. 

 Woodward, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



The specimen described is preserved, as usual, in a phosphatic 

 nodule, and exhibits five well-preserved abdominal segments (xiv.- 

 xviii.), a portion of the carapace, traces of the thoracic appendages, 

 and the appendages of the twentieth segment preceding the telson. 

 The abdominal segments increase in breadth posteriorly as in 

 modern Sqmllce. The species is most nearly allied to a recent 

 Australian Squilla (unnamed) related to S. Desmarestii. The author 

 proposed the name of Squilla Wetherelli for the London-clay fossil. 



6. " On Necroscilla Wilsoni, a supposed Stomatopod Crustacean 

 from the Middle Coal-measures, Cossall, near Ilkeston, Derbyshire." 

 By H. Woodward, Esq., LL.D., F.B.S., F.G.S. 



The specimen described was found by Mr. E. Wilson, of Not- 

 tingham, in a nodule of Clay-ironstone. It consists of the four 

 posterior abdominal somites and the telson. The author discussed 

 its zoological characters, which led him to regard it as approaching 



