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derived from some deposit probably of Diestian or Anversian age. Mr. Harmer 

 has in his collection a worn shell of the V. Laviberti group, showing distinctly 

 broad and swollen ribs on the upper whorls obtained from the Felixstowe shore. 

 Very few invertebrate remains other than the Mollusca have been obtained 

 in the East Anglian area. I have only noticed, or found recorded : — 



Crustacea. 



Cceloma sp. (? rupeliense, Strainer), and segments of a narrow lobster-like 



species* 

 Balanus inclusus (fide Lankester), B. unguiformis. 



Radiata. 

 Cypliosoma tertiarium, Cotteau. 

 Diadema mcgastoma, A. Bell. 

 Solaster Reedi, n.sp. 



[Tbis unique example belongs to the Reed Collection in the York Museum. 

 It exhibits the dorsal surface of a thick fleshy starfish, covered with bunches 

 of short fasciculate spines scattered over the surface, as they are in the recent 

 S. furcifer. 



Mr. W. K. Spencer, F.G. S., has kindly furnished me with the following 

 notes of dimensions : " Major radius 33 mm. (approx.), minor radius 13 mm., 

 width of arm at base 14 mm., no. of arms six."] 



Coelenterata. 



Flabellum cuneata, Goldfuss, and another species. 

 Solenastrea Prestiuichii, Duncan. 

 Trochocyatlius anglicus, Duncan. 



Woods, fruits, and nuts are common in the Belgian Bupelien deposits, and 

 our sub-Crags are rich in these. Mr. W. Carruthers told me many years 

 ago that he had determined three Angiospermous Dicotyledons, one conifer, 

 and two palms. Certain plants or fruits retain their forms when phosphatized 

 both in exterior shape and internal structure, but whether these have any 

 relations to eitber of the woods present is not yet known. Mus. Ipswich, 

 Saffron Walden. 



Amber has been obtained from the Cromer Forest Bed, and Mr. C. Eeid 

 has referred to a variety of spiders, insects, etc., in amber washed up 

 on the East Anglian coast, Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 vols, iii-v. Mr. A. H. Foord, F.G.S., in vol. v, p. 92, figures many of these, 

 including bees, beetles, cockroaches, and spiders, submitted to, and partly 

 named by, Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse and the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge. Whether of 

 the same age as the above woods has yet to be determined. 



NOTICES OIF DVLEIMIOIIRS. 



I. — On Mammalian Bones from Excavations in the London 

 District. By Arthur Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.ft.S. 1 



IN an area so long populated as the London district the surface 

 deposits are naturally very varied, and those of the historic 

 period contain remains not only of the indigenous fauna hut also of 

 man's accidental importations. Even so late as the twelfth century 

 William Fitzstephen wrote that the woods close to the city were 

 well stocked with game — " stags, fallow-deer, boars, and wild bulls." 

 Their bones and teeth are often found, besides the remains of other 

 animals, perhaps partly of somewhat earlier date, among which the 

 beaver is especially interesting. Bones of the beaver are indeed so 



1 Abstract of a lecture delivered to the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies at Burlington House, London, on June 7, 1917. 



