356 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
University of Aberdeen conferred on him the degree of LL.D., 
in recognition of his services to local scientific research. 
In 1862 he published a description of various shell- 
mounds on the south shore of the Moray Firth, in which his 
knowledge of the Mollusca is well shown. 
But the subject which fascinated him most for the rest of 
his life was the development of our knowledge regarding the 
reptiliferous sandstones. By securing nearly every reptilian 
find, he aided Huxley in his investigations, and lately he was 
instrumental in sending to my colleague, Mr Newton, a 
series of reptilian remains, which, together with specimens 
in the hands of the Geological Survey, have been described 
in an elaborate memoir in the Zvransaetions of the Royal 
Society. From this collection two forms of Dicynodonts 
have been obtained, one of the generic forms being named 
Gordonia, after Dr Gordon, and an extreme type of reptile 
allied to the South African Pareiasaurus. 
XXVIII. Notes on Carboniferous Lamellibranchs. By J. G. 
GoopcHILD, H.M. Geological Survey, F.G.S., F.ZS., 
M.B.0.U., Lecturer on Geology and Paleontology at 
the Heriot-Watt College. . 
(Read 21st March 1894.) 
Part III. Venus parallela, Phillips, AND ITS ALLIES. 
Through the kindness of Dr Traquair, I have had an 
opportunity of examining a good series of specimens from 
the Armstrong Collection in the Edinburgh Museum of 
Science and Art, which agree with Professor Phillips’s 
descriptions and figures of Venus parallela (Geol. Yorks., 
part il, p. 209, pl. v., fig. 8). The Armstrong Collection 
includes some good testiferous specimens, which show both 
interiors and exteriors of shells referable to this species. 
In addition to studying these, I have examined several 
specimens of the same species and its allies in-the Collection 
of the Geological Survey of Scotland, as well as others in 
' various private collections. The results of the examination 
suggest that the fossil shells in question belong to the 
genus Cypricardella of Hall, Trans, Alb. Inst., vol. iv., 1856. 
