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Redditch, including the bones and teeth of Labyrinthodon, teeth of 
Polyacrodus and Phebodus (?), plant remains, &c. 
Permission has already been obtained to work in the famous Coton 
End Quarry at Warwick, and arrangements made for further digging 
at Shelfield should the grant be renewed. It is felt that the chief 
difficulty is the discovery of productive fossiliferous horizons, and then 
the arrangement for labour in scattered and often secluded localities. 
The larger part of the money so far spent has been in travelling 
expenses in this connection, 
The Lower Paleozoic Rocks of England and Wales.—Report 
of the Committee, consisting of Prof. W. W. Warts (Chair- 
man), Prof. W. G. FEARNSIDES (Secretary), Prof. W. 5. 
Bourton, Mr. E. S. Copsonp, Mr. V. C. Innine, Dr. C. Lap- 
worTH, and Dr. J. E. Marr, appointed to excavate Critical 
Sections therein. 
Nuneaton Area.—Mr. Y. C. Illing reports that during the winter of 
1913-14 and the ensuing spring, systematic trenching was begun 
across the outcrop of the Abbey Shale division of the Stockingford 
Shales. By the kind permission of Mr. Phillips, of Ansley Hall, the 
work was carried out in the Hartshill Hayes. A trench, thirty yards 
long, two feet wide, and three feet deep, was made in the direction of 
the dip of the shales, and cross trenches were cut along the strike 
of nine of the beds richest in fossils. In some cases these latter 
trenches were cut to a depth of ten feet. About thirty yards away, 
in the direction of the strike, a second trench was cut across the out- 
crop, and, in addition to the discovery of further types of fossils, 
evidence was obtained of lateral changes in lithology. Some five 
thousand specimens were obtained, chiefly of trilobites, ranging over 
some fifty different species. These indicate a fauna corresponding to 
that of the Upper Solva Beds and the Lower and Middle Menevian 
Beds, i.e. the zones of Conocoryphe exsulans, Agnostus parvifrons, 
Conocoryphe ‘equalis (?), and Paradoxides davidis, of Sweden, and the 
zones of P. aurora, P. hicksti, and P. davidis, of South Wales. In 
addition new links have been found between the fauna of this area 
and that of the corresponding beds in Bohemia, three of the forms 
being new to Britain. The fossils are being described and photo- 
ened, and a paper on the subject will be presented to the Geological 
ociety. 
Comley Area, Shropshire.—Mr. E. S. Cobbold reports that exca- 
‘vations have been begun in the Cambrian Rocks of the Comley area, 
‘but no report of the results is yet possible. 
The Committee asks for reappointment with a grant of 151., which 
would include the unspent portion of this year’s grant. 
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