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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



North Stafford shire. 

 I examined the ' Eed Bocks ' in the Keele railway cutting, at 

 Madeley, and Etruria to compare the sequence with others in the 

 Midland district. In so doing it was found that the Etruria marls at 

 Little Madeley contain plant-remains. Since they were considered 

 previously to be unfossiliferous this discovery is of interest. They 

 occurred in blackish shale above the first grit, casts of Cordaites sp. 

 being especially numerous. Similar impressions were observed beneath 

 the second grit; they resemble those found in the Keele series, in the 

 Keele railway cutting. Beneath the fourth grit are numerous plant- 

 remains, Stigmaria ficoides being especially abundant, and also pith- 

 casts of Catamites, thus showing that the flora of this part of the Bed 

 Bock sequence resembles the Westphalian series. 



South Staffordshire. 

 The ironstone nodules in the productive series are a fruitful hunting- 

 ground if every available nodule is collected and split open. This was 

 a task undertaken many years ago by the late Mr. Henry Johnson. 

 His collections, partly at South Kensington, have now been dispersed 

 and some of these nodules have been obtained and have come under 

 our examination, of which the following is a list. They come from 

 between the Brooch and Thick coal of Coseley, near Dudley. 



PLANTJS. 



FlLICALES ET PtBRIDOSPERM^E. 



Sphenopteris honinghausi (Brongt.). 

 ,, cf. artemisicefolioides 



(Crepin). 

 Pecopteris miltoni (Artis). 

 Alethopteris lonchitica (Schloth.). 

 „ decurrens (Artis). 



,, cf. valida (Boulay). 



Neuropteris hctcrophylla (Brongt.). 



Neuropteris obliqua (Brongt.). 



,, gigantea (Sternb.). 



„ tenuijolia (Schloth.). 



Odontoptcris. 



Equisetales. 



Catamites suckovii (Brongt.). 

 Calamocladus equisctiformis (Schloth.). 

 Annularia radiata (Brongt.). 



„ galioides (L. & H.), 



Calamostachys. 



