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suggestive explanations as to the causes of these illusions. Dr. Bed- 
doe treats of the Ethnology of the Hindoo-Koosh ; H. Charbonnier 
of specimens of the Pomarine Skua killed in Hngland; A. EK. Hudd 
of the Local Lepidoptera (part 3); W. J. Sollas of the Structure and 
Life-history of a Sponge (Sycandraraphanus); A. Leipner of Proli- 
fication in Cyclamen persicum; and C. Bucknell of the Local Fungi 
(part 3). Thus, touching the highest and the lowest in Biology, the 
Society fulfils its part in Natural History, supplementing the above 
with E. Wethered’s valuable paper on Underground Temperature 
-and G. F. Burder’s Table of the Rainfall at Clifton in 1879. 
Proceedings of the Yorkshire G'eological and Polytechnic Socvety. 
New series, vol. vii. part 3, for 1880. 8vo. Leeds, 1831. 
Excepting the Marquis of Ripon’s Presidential Address on the 
objects, work, and progress of the Society, and a paper by W. P. 
Sladen on the Structure of the Asteroidea, with special reference to 
their ancestral relationship, this part i. for 1880 is mainly com- 
posed of geological notes and memoirs, mostly with local bearings, 
The Raygill Fissure, the Creswell Caves, the Glacial Deposits near 
Bridlington and elsewhere, the Geology of Cleveland, the Fault in 
the Flamborough Chalk, Bones of Ctenodus, and the Fossil Fishes of 
the Coal-fields in Yorkshire are here treated of more or less fully. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
On some remarkable fossil Fishes from the Devonian Rocks of 
Scaumenac Bay, in the Province of Quebec. By J. F. Warrnaves. 
ImMEpIATELY after my paper on the Canadian Pterichthys* was 
written, Mr. A. H. Foord, of the Geological Survey of Canada, went 
down to the Baie des Chaleurs, and spent two months and a half of 
the summer of 1880 in a careful and systematic examination of the 
fish-bearing beds of the Devonian rocks of the north bank of the 
mouth of the Restigouche river. The exact locality at which the 
Pterichthys canadensis was found is not the Baie des Chaleurs proper, 
but Scaumenac (sometimes written Escuminac) Bay, Restigouche 
Harbour, in the county of Bonaventure. On the shores of this bay 
a series of shales, sandstones, and conglomerates, now known to be 
of Devonian age, are overlain, apparently unconformably, by the 
red sandstones and conglomerates of the “ Bonaventure Forma- 
tion.” 
From these Devonian rocks Mr. Foord succeeded in obtaining a 
* “On a new Species of Pterichthys, allied to Bothriolepis ornata, 
Eichwald,” &c., Amer. Journ. Sci. xx. p. 182, August 1880. 
