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2 inches in length, } inch in thickness, and the upper surface 
is covered by characteristic pittings varying from an eighth 
to a quarter of an inch across. 
Remains of S¢eneosaurus do not appear to have been re- 
corded previously from Filey Bay, and judging from the 
‘Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata,’ by Smith Woodward 
and C. D. Sherborn, it would seem that the genus principally 
occurs in the Lias and in the Great Oolite. One example is 
recorded from the Kimeridge Clay of Kimeridge Bay. This 
is a snout, now in the British Museum, and is identified as 
Steneosaurus (Teleosaurus) megarhinus, Hulke. The specimen 
in question was described J. W. Hulke in the ‘Quarterly Journal 
of the Geological Society’ in 1871, and by Dr. Smith Wood- 
ward in ‘The Geological Magazine,’ in 1885. Since the 
‘Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata’ appeared, numerous 
remains of SZeneosaurus have been obtained from the Oxford 
Clay at Peterborough. One of the scutes from the Oxford Clay 
has been kindly placed in the Hull Museum by Mr. H. C. Drake 
for the purpose of comparison with the Speeton specimens. 
Fish remains.—Another discovery of some importance, also 
made by Mr. Danford, is in a large nodule from the Kimeridge 
Clay. On the outside of this traces of bone were noticed, and 
after much labour these were carefully chiselled out, and revealed 
the bones of the head, a fin, a tooth, and other remains of a large 
fish, probably allied to Caturus, a genus well represented in the 
Liassic rocks further north at Whitby. On submitting this to 
Dr. Smith Woodward, he states that it resembles another 
species, undescribed, which is in the British Museum. That 
specimen, according to Mr. Lamplugh, is probably from the 
Neocomian zone Belemnites jaculum. If this is so, it would 
appear that the species is represented on the east coast in the 
Lias, Kimeridge, and Speeton Clays. 
There is an interesting paper ‘On the Existence of the Alpine Vole 
{(Microtus nivalis) in Britain during Pleistocene times,’ by Mr. M. A. C. 
Hinton, in the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association (Vol. XX., Pt. 2). 
In the same publication Mr. E. T. Newton has a ‘ Note on specimens of 
“‘Rhaxella Chert’’ or ‘‘ Arngrove Stone” from Dartford Heath.’ After 
very careful examination he concludes that specimens of Rhaxella Chert 
found in gravels at Cromer were derived from the Scarborough district. 
In Cornwall recently a large stone of great archzological interest, the 
Giant’s Quoit, which figures prominently in the legendary and historical 
records of the county, has been blasted and used for road metal! Were the 
perpetrators of the crime of suitable material, we could wish them a 
similiar fate. But they would be unsuitable—even for mending roads. 
1907 August Te 
