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cellent: but all was quiet; not a vestige of smoke even was to be seen. Touching 

 at the Westmanna Islands, we were informed that the Kbtliigja eruption had ceased 

 a few days previously, having done comparatively little mischief to the farms in its 

 vicinity. 



[Details of the eruptions above referred to, as well as an account of the Geology 

 and Topography of Kbtliigja, will be found in a paper by the author " On the Erup- 

 tion in May 1860, of the Kbtliigja Volcano, Iceland" — accompanied with a Map 

 " illustrative of the Physical Geography of that part of the South of Iceland in which 

 Kbtliigja is situated" — in the 'Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal' for January 

 1861, p. 6, and pi. 2 ; and also in his " Contributions to the Natural History of Vol- 

 canic Phenomena and Products in Iceland " in the ' Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh ' for 17th December I860.] — June 1860. 



On some Reptilian Foot-prints from the New Red Sandstone, north of 

 Wolverhampton. By the Rev. W. Lister. 



The object of this paper is simply to announce the discovery, in a fresh locality, of 

 foot-prints of the Labyrinlhodon, Rhynchosaurits, and of another animal, or animals, 

 with which I am not acquainted. Hitherto, I believe, the remains of the Laby- 

 rinthodon have only been found in Warwickshire, and the north of Cheshire and its 

 neighbourhood ; and the Rhynchosaurits in the Grinsel quarry near Shrewsbury*. The 

 foot-prints now discovered have been met with in Staffordshire, in a quarry of the 

 New Red Sandstone, on the very borders of the Red Marl, at a place about six miles 

 north of Wolverhampton, in the parish of Brewood, on the road between " The 

 Stone House " and Somerford. " The Stone House," which is given on the Ordnance 

 Map, is near to Chillington Avenue Gites, and within 200 yards of the quarry. The 

 bed in which the foot-prints occur is about 12 feet from the surface. One of the slabs 

 was so thickly covered with impressions, resembling those of the Rhynchosaurits, as 

 to make one feel that the animals which made them must have been very numerous 

 on the spot. These were smaller than most of the others, and I have a" strong im- 

 pression that they were those of young animals, they were so uniform in size and 

 form. But unfortunately, the slab, which was from 5 to 6 feet long by from 3 to 4 

 broad, was removed before I had an opportunity of re-examining it. 



The ripple-mark is very beautifully preserved on some of the slabs, and so is also 

 the rain-drops; while in many cases the amount of sand deposited by each tide is 

 readily discovered by the thickness of its layers, which lie one on the other, and which, 

 by means of the ripple-mark, show also the direction in which the water flowed, or 

 the wind blew, at the time they were deposited. The deposits of two, three, and, in 

 some cases, of even four tides are easily seen. 



Some of the foot-prints of the Labyrinlhodon are 10 inches in length ; those of the 

 Rhynchosaurits are from 1 to 2 inches. 



On the Koh-i-Noor previous to its Cutting. 

 By the Rev. W. Mitchell and Prof. Tennant, F.G.S. 



On the Contents of Three Square Yards of Triassic Drift. 

 By C.Moore, F.G.S. 



The author stated that several years ago he suspected the presence of triassic rocks 

 in the neighbourhood of Froine, from accidentally finding a single block of stone on a 

 roadside heap of carboniferous limestone, containing fish remains of the former age; 

 but that for a long time he was unable to discover it in situ. More recently, when 

 examining some carboniferous limestone quarries near the above town, he observed 

 certain fissures which had subsequently been filled up by a drift of a later age. One 

 of these was about a foot in breadth at the top, but increased to 15 feet in breadth at 

 the base of the quarry, 30 feet below, at which point teeth aud bones of triassic reptiles 



* After the reading of the paper, it was stated by Mr. Hull of the Government Survey, 

 that impressions of the Labyrinlhodon have been discovered in two or three other fresh 

 localities, but they have not, as I understand, been published. — W. L. 



