381 Miscellaneous — Recent Additions to the British Museum. 



FOSSILS IX THE OLENELLUS SANDSTONE OF NUNEATON". 



Sir, — The publication of the May number of the Quarterly 

 Journal of the Geological Society has reminded me of a correction 

 which I ought to have made before, and for which I am alone 

 responsible. On page vi, in the first paragraph, in speaking of 

 fossils collected by Professor Lap worth from the Olenellus Sand- 

 stone of Nuneaton, I give a list of determinations which were 

 merely approximate, without any warning to that effect. I have 

 since learned that these determinations were not intended to be final, 

 and therefore I ought to have inserted the letters cf. before the 

 six specific titles given in that paragraph. W. W. Watts. 



Corndon, "Worcester Koad, Sutton, Surrey. 

 June 10th, 1896. 



MISCELIiAITEOlTS. 



Eecent Additions to the Geological Department of tb:e 

 British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road. 



1. There has just been added to this gallery a veiy fine collection 

 of flint implements, also numerous flint flakes, showing various 

 stages and processes in their manufacture, and found associated 

 with remains of Rhinoceros antiquitatis at Cray ford, in Kent. Pre- 

 sented by F. C. J. Spurrell, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. A collection of fossils from Devon and Cornwall, part of the 

 museum of the late William Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S., comprising 

 mammalian remains from Happaway Cave and Devonian Corals, 

 Brachiopods, Trilobites, Cephalopoda, etc. Presented by Mrs. 

 Pengelly, of Lamorua, Torquay. 



3. Remains of some remarkable extinct birds from the older 

 Tertiary deposits of Santa Cruz, Patagonia. Many of these are of 

 gigantic size : the lower jaw of one of the largest (Phororhacos 

 longissimus) measured about twenty inches in length ; the whole 

 skull must have been fully two feet in length. The complete 

 skull and mandible of a somewhat smaller form (I'hororhacos iu- 

 flatus) show the remarkable characters of the beak, which is hooked 

 like that of a bird of prey, but. at the same time is very deep and 

 compressed. Acquired from Prof. Ameghino, of La Plata. 



4. Some extremely well-preserved parts of skeletons of Plesio- 

 saurs from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough have been mounted in 

 one of the wall-cases. Part of the Leeds Collection. 



5. Some remai'kable reptiles, Cyuognaihus and Gomphognathus, 

 from the Trias of South Africa, in which the teeth and skull 

 had a superficial resemblance to those of carnivorous mammals. 

 Presented by Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



6. A very rich collection of mammalian and reptilian remains 

 from the Miocene Tertiary deposits of the "Bad-lands" of Dakota, 

 North America, comprising many genera, such as Titanotheriurn, 

 Mesohippus, Oreodon, Poebroiherium, Hoploplioneus, etc. Acquired 

 from Prof. W. B. Scott, F.G.S., of Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. 



