480 Miscellaneous. 



largest known ganoid fish, probably about 30 feet in length and with 

 a tail (now exhibited in the British Museum) 9 feet in span. 

 Remains of If es turns add much to our knowledge of the Pycnodont 

 fishes ; while the bones of Lepidotus, Caturus, and ffypsocormus can be 

 handled and studied almost as in specially macerated modern 

 skeletons. Among sharks, there is the first proof that the fin-spines 

 named Aster acanthus and the teeth named Strophodus belong to the 

 same fish. Like the reptiles, all the most important fishes are now 

 in the British Museum ; but there were enough duplicates of both 

 groups to provide for many other museums, and these are to be found 

 both in this country and in Germany, Austria, and North America. 



Those who had the privilege of Mr. Leeds' friendship will always 

 retain happy memories of the hospitality of Mrs. Leeds and himself 

 at Eyebury. He lived in the picturesque fenland farm that was 

 formerly attached to the Abbey of Peterborough, and the thick walls, 

 with a remnant of the moat, were an interesting memento of other 

 days. His museum occupied the attics of the house, and the old 

 farm-office was always filled with boxes of the latest discoveries 

 awaiting preparation. Odd trays of specimens in progress were also 

 kept in sight in other rooms to occupy leisure moments. His 

 interests, however, were by no means confined to his fossil bones. 

 He was alive to the progress of science in all ways, and he took an 

 especially active part in local affairs. His loss, indeed, will be 

 mourned by the whole community. 



A. S. W. 



MISCELLAlSTEOnS. 



The Pliocene Cave at Dove Holes. — Early in August last 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins and Dr. Smith Woodward visited the 

 Yictoi'y Quarry, Dove Holes, near Buxton, where Pliocene mammalian 

 remains were found in 1902 in a small cave or fissure in the 

 Carboniferous Limestone (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. lix, pp. 105- 

 29, 1903). Although the fissure in question has long been emptied 

 and destroyed, several similar fissures, filled with clay and sand, are 

 still to be seen ; but no fossils appear to have been met with in these 

 deposits during the past fifteen years. The foreman and some other 

 workmen who helped to find the teeth and bones described by 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins are still employed in the quarry, and have 

 received every inducement to be watchful for similar discoveries. 



Piltdown. — During the past summer Dr. Smith "Woodward has 

 spent six weeks, partly in association with Professor Elliot Smith 

 and Major Cromer Ashburnham, in exploring the Piltdown gravel. 

 Large excavations were made round the edge of the original pit in 

 which the remains of Piltdown man were found, and much undis- 

 turbed gravel was sifted and carefully examined. Nothing, however, 

 was discovered except one unimportant fragment of the tibia of 

 a deer. The second locality in which the late Mr. Charles Dawson 

 picked up fragments of a Piltdown skull has not yet been identified 

 with certainty, but hopeful inquiries are still being made. 



