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Ccelacanthus, Platysomw, Ehizodopsis, MegaUchthys, and Pleuracanthns. 

 Anthmcosia PMUipsii is also remarkably abundant in the Bassey Mine and 

 the Gutter Mine ironstones, the latter being composed almost wholly of 

 compressed forms of this shell. The Black-band ironstone of Apedale is 

 also extremely rich in similar species, and contains, in addition, SanguinoUtes, 

 with thick masses of Cytheropds. Anthmcosia Phillipsii appear to be the 

 characteristic shell of these upper thick measures, occurring abundantly in 

 the Cannel Mine and other beds worked in different localities, until it dies 

 out in the valueless coal-seams which interline the arenaceous shales of the 

 upper beds of Hartshill and Newcastle-under-Lyne. 



It may be stated in conclusion that, in drawing up their Report, your 

 Committee have confined themselves as much as possible to the more strik- 

 ing particulars of the inquiry. The subject is in itself of too voluminous a 

 character for detailed treatment, and a great amount of interesting matter 

 has been necessarily omitted. Much of this, however, will be supplied by 

 carefully prepared lists of the whole of the fossils found in the various 

 measures of the field, which will be arranged in stratigraphical order for 

 future publication. 



Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Marine Fauna and 

 Flora of the South Coast of Devon and Cornwall. — No. 1. Consist- 

 ing of J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., Rev. Thomas Hincks, Jonathan 

 Couch, F.L.S., Charles Stewart, J. Brooking Rowe, F.L.S., and 

 J. Ralfs, F.L.S. Reporter, C. Spence Bate, F.R.S. fyc. 

 In presenting the first Report of the results of the Committee formed for the 

 purpose of dredging the southern coast of Devon and Cornwall, we think it 

 undesirable to repeat the full list of animals as recorded in our Dredging 

 Tables. We shall therefore mention only those species that are either new or 

 rare, or exhibit some especial interest from observation of some hitherto unre- 

 corded peculiarity of habit or structure. We cannot communicate the residt 

 of our labours without expressing our appreciation of the service that we 

 received from Her Majesty's Gunnery Ship ' Cambridge.' Capt. Ewart, C.B., 

 having kindly offered any assistance that we might require on the water, we 

 were not slow to avail ourselves of the ship's launch and crew for the purpose 

 of dredging, and were on those occasions accompanied by Dr. Forbes of the 

 ' Cambridge,' a gentleman known to science for an excellent memoir on the 

 History and Topography of Vancouver's Island. 



Pisces. 



In reporting on the Eish, Mr. Couch says that although our success in 

 this quarter has not been very abundant, still however our labour has not 

 been without some considerable amount of success. 



Among the ordinary inhabitants of our coast we scarcely expected to have 

 found the Twait shad, so near the bottom, in rather deep water, as to be taken 

 in the trawl ; we were also enabled to obtain a knowledge of tbe ordinary 

 food of the Megrim or scaldfish, P. arnoghssus, of which the examples were 

 numerous : small specimens of Galathcce were in their stomach. 



We were also fortunate enough to obtain a specimen of the Eilefish, 

 Balistes capriscms, the second on record as having been taken in England, 

 and offering in some respects a different appearance from the figures given of 



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