Notes and Comments. 



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Miss Mary A. Johnstone, B.Sc, has an interesting paper on 

 Calamites [Calamitina) varians, Sternb., var. insignis, Weiss.' 

 The specimen which she illustrates and describes was obtained 

 from the quarry of the Bradford Brick and Tile Company, and 

 formed the core of one of the clay nodules which are abundant 

 in the shale bands below the Better Bed Coal. The specimen 

 contains many interesting physiological features, which are 

 described in minute detail. Incidentally Miss Johnstone dis- 

 agrees with the conclusions formed by Mr. A. R. Horwood, 

 of the Leicester Museum, who recently described some Cala- 

 mites in the Journal of the Linnean Society. 



THE SCUNTHORPE MUSEUM. 



The Scunthorpe Museum Committee has issued a penny 



Liassic Fossils from Scunthorpe. 



1. Cardiaia sp. ; i. Cardiaia bybrida ; 3. Gryphaea incurva ; 4. Lima sp. (end view) ; 



a. Pholadomya ambigua ; fi. Pleurotomaria aagtica (?). 



illustrated guide to its collections, which are housed in rooms 

 in the Public Libraiy, near the Railway Station. The honorary 

 Curator, Mr. A. C. Dalton, and a number of willing helpers, 

 have gathered together a representative series of objects 

 illustrating the geology, archaeology and natural history of 

 the Scunthorpe district. The Guide is written by Mr. T. 

 Sheppard, and is well illustrated. 



SNAKESTONES. 



Some little time ago we figured some Ammonites or ' Snake- 

 stones.' upon which ' heads ' had been carved by the Whitby 

 dealers. The illustrations came under the notice of Mr. 

 Walter W. Skeat, and in Folk- Lore (Vol. 23, No. i) he gives an 

 admirable paper on * Snakestones and Stone Thunderbolts as 

 subjects for Systematic Investigation.' The paper occupies 



igt2 Dec. I. 



