INVESTIGATION OF FAUNA AND FLORA OF TRIAS OF BRITISH ISLES. 275 
Investigation of the Fauna and Flora of the Trias of the British Isles. 
—Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor W. A. 
Herpman (Chairman), Mr. J. Lomas (Secretary), Professor W. W. 
Warts, Professor P. F. KENDALL, and Messrs. H. C. BEASLEY, 
E. T. Newton, A. C. Sewarp, and W. A. E. UssHer. (Drawn 
up by the Secretary.) 
(PuAtvES III.-VI.) 
THE work of the Committee has been continued during the past year, 
and reports have been received from Mr. H. C. Beasley on ‘Footprints 
from the Trias, Part II,’ dealing with Rhynchosauroid and Chelonoid 
forms ; from Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., on ‘ The Triassic Fossils (excluding 
Rhetic) in the Museum of the Geological Survey at Jermyn Street, 
London ;’ and from Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., on‘ The British 
Triassic Fossils in the British Museum.’ 
Complete lists of the Triassic fossils in the two great London museums 
are included in the reports, together with notes on the more interesting 
forms, and valuable references are given to works and papers in which the 
specimens are described or noticed. 
In the next report the Committee hopes to present similar lists and 
notes from museums in the provinces. Assistance in this direction has 
already been promised, and some progress has been made towards tracing 
types and interesting specimens stored in public and private collections. 
Tt is essential that the fossils should be correctly named, and those 
who have the keeping of them are reminded that any specimens sent to 
the Secretary will be acknowledged and returned after they have been 
submitted to specialists for determination. 
I. Report on Footprints from the Trias, Part Ll. 
By H. C. Brasney. 
Rhynchosauroid Forms. D 1-5 and KE. 
In the first portion of this report footprints more or less resembling 
those originally attributed to the Cheirotherium were described. It is 
proposed to deal next with those bearing some resemblance to the foot- 
prints attributed to the Rhynchosaurus, and for which the term Rhyncho- 
sauroid has been suggested. 
We are met with some little difficulty at the outset owing to the fact 
that no figures were given of the footprints described by Dr. O. D. Ward,' 
and which were referred to by Professor Owen,’ in his paper on Rhyncho- 
sawrus articeps, neither has the writer been able to find in the Shrewsbury 
Museum or elsewhere, up to the present, the type specimens. It is not 
easy to find any example that will exactly tally with the description 
1 British Association Report, 1839, ‘On Footprints and Ripplemarks of the New 
Red Sandstone of Grimshill, Shropshire,’ by O. D. Ward, M.D. 
2 Trans. Camb. Phil. Society, vol. vii. p. 355, April 11, 1842. ‘ Description of an 
Extinct Lacertian Reptile, Rhynchosaurus articeps (Owen), of which the bones and 
footprints characterise the Upper New Red Sandstone of Grimshill, near Shrews- 
bury, by Richard Owen, F.G.5., Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of 
Surgeons,’ eS 
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