304 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
_ The best series is on the squate slab now in the British Museuni 
(R. 3483), which we may take as the type (Plate IIT.) ; but they were also 
present on other slabs of the present find. 
The longer slab in the British Museum, R. 5484, has a number of prints 
of probably the same foot, but differing slightly to size, and occasionally 
in minor details, 
Traces of a footprint that seems to be of an entirely different type 
from any hitherto recorded from Storeton have been seen, but they are 
too ill-defined to warrant detailed description in the absence of more 
perfect examples. As far as can at present be made out, they are about 
6 cm. broad by 4 cm. long, and consist of four slender digits. There are 
indications in every case of a high, roughly semicircular ridge of mud 
having been raised in the rear of the print such as it would seem hardly 
probable would be raised by the pressure of the slender toes alone unless 
the feet were webbed, of which so far we have no indication. 
Examples may be seen on the slab in the British Museum, R. 3483. 
Besides the vertebrate prints, several of the slabs show tracks of 
invertebrates, worms, and possibly gastropods, varying in width from 
2mm. to 15 mm. 
The vast number and variety of markings preserved afford material 
for investigation, which, it is hoped, will be carried on by the paleonto- 
logists and others of the various towns and cities in whose institutions the 
specimens are now deposited. Among these are :— 
British Museum, Natural History. 
Hull Municipal Museum. 
Leeds Library and Philosophical Society, 
Leeds University, 
Bolton. 
Birkenhead Corporation. 
Manchester, Owens College. 
Liverpool University. 
Others have been deposited in private collections, 
No attempt has been made to attach generic or specific names to the 
various forms, as it seems advisable to await further investigation before 
taking this step. It is hoped that those interested in the fauna of the’ 
Trias will find the plan adopted sufficient for purposes of identification. 
On a Footprint Slabyin the Museum of Zoology, University of Liverpool. 
By J. Lomas, A.R.C.S., F.GS, 
A large slab of sandstone from Storeton, presented to the Liverpool 
University by Mr. C. Wells, J.P., has afforded exceptional opportunities 
for the examination of a group of footprints described by Mr. H. C. Beasley 
as A 4, 
The large size of the slab—over 11 feet—gives a track containing: 
fifteen impressions made by the same individual, four right pes, four left 
pes, four left manus, and three right manus. The prints are exceptionally 
perfect, in low relief, and details are shown which have not hitherto been 
seen. 
