384 Miscellaneous. 



to an anticlinal elevation, and while this elevated mass caused an 

 obstacle which was no barrier to the mighty flood that removed it, it 

 at the same time caused the limestone to be raised up to the position 

 that it now occupies. The occurrence of the limestone must owe its 

 existence either to a rapid thinning out of the lower beds of the Coal- 

 measures or to its having been raised in the way suggested. 



The great Carboniferous Limestone formation of Derbyshire probably 

 thins out gradually southwards, until only a few feet of the upper 

 beds are left. To quote Professor Bonney, in his remarks ou the Fair 

 Oak Limestone — 



" About 22 miles to the east, the Carboniferous Limestone appeared to thin 

 out on the north side of Charnwood Forest ; it was doing the same thing near 

 Wellington, about 47 miles to the west . . . over a semicircular district of 

 which Fair Oak was the centre. He thought that the discovery marked a point 

 in the southern shore-line of the northern sea-basin, perhaps a bay : thus 

 resembling the limestone on the Titterstone Clee Hills, which must occupy 

 a similar position on the northern shore-line of the southern basin." 1 



The collection of Carboniferous Limestone fossils from this pit 

 were then handed over by Messrs. Cockin and Wetherall to the 

 Institute for preservation and future reference. 



MISCELLA3STEOTJS. 



British Museum (Natural History) Department of Geology. 



Cainozoic Freshwater and Lacustrine Mollusca erom Germany. — 

 The extraordinary richness of the collections of the British Museum 

 has rarely been better illustrated than by the table-case of German 

 Cainozoic Mollusca just arranged and exhibited in the Geological 

 Department by Mr. R. B. Newton with the assistance of Mr. G. K. 

 Gude. The accumulation of nearly a hundred years, we have a fine 

 series of the land, freshwater, and lacustrine shells which lived 

 in Germany from Oligocene to Post-Pliocene times exhibited to our 

 notice for the first time. JNo such series is to be found in any 

 Continental museum with which we are acquainted. Many of the 

 specimens come from localities now closed or inaccessible, and such 

 well-known places as Cannstadt, Heinheim, Oeningen, Mosbach, 

 Budenheim, Floersheim, Mainz, Wangen, Weimar, Taubach, Hochheim, 

 Wiesbaden, and a score of others are represented in the collection. 

 Similar series of Mollusca from the other Continental areas are in 

 course of arrangement, the French and Austro- Hungarian being 

 already in hand. 



The Collections of the Geological Society of London. — In 

 accordance with the resolutions passed on June 14 that the 

 collections of the Geological Society should be divided between the 

 British Museum and Jenny n Street, it is interesting to note that 

 the Foreign Series has already been removed to its new home at the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.), is all in order in new cabinets, and can 

 be referred to by responsible students. 



Bristol Museum. — Mr. Herbert Bolton, F.G.S., curator of the 

 Bristol Museum of Natural History, has been appointed reader in 

 palaeontology in the University of Bristol. 



1 Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, vol. lxii, p. 528, 1906. 



