520 Notices of Memoirs — A. R. Hor wood's Rhcetic Fossils. 



11 Note on John Curtis' British Entomb (with Mr. J. Hartley 

 Durrant) : Entom. Month. Mag., xlvii, April, 1911. 



Your Committee confidently recommend their reappointment, and 

 earnestly ask the Association further to support this valuable work 

 by a renewed grant. 1 



IV. — On some New Rh-etic Fossils from Glen - Parva, Leicester- 

 shire. By A. R. Horwood. 2 

 OWING to the impending filling up of the once fine. pit at Wigston 

 (Glen Parva), where the Keuper tea-green marl, Rhaetic, and 

 Lias formations are all exposed in a fine section of some eighty feet of 

 rock, extraordinary efforts have been made by Messrs. A. J. Cannon 

 and H. Siddons to investigate the contents of the bone-bed and black 

 shales of the Rhaetic before this is rendered impossible by the filling up 

 of the pit with water, the brickyard being now closed. 



Some rare and new fossils have been found which may here be 

 briefly mentioned. In the tea-green marls Orbiculoidea Toicnsendi was 

 discovered. This, along Avith the regular occurrence there of bands of 

 fish scales and teeth in the same beds, and of Estheria mimita, allies 

 them palaeontologically with the Rhaetic beds in which alone the first 

 fossil has hitherto been found. 



In the succeeding black shales amongst many plant fragments are 

 some leaves allied to Podozamites, which are new. An exceedingly 

 interesting discovery is the impression, unique as such for Palaeozoic 

 or Mesozoic rocks, of an annelid which occurs in beds filled with 

 castings allied to Arenicola. Among Arthropodous remains are the 

 chitinous body-segments of Crustacea and a scorpion-like creature. 

 That they are not uncommon elsewhere is probable. But the Rhaetic 

 fauna is so fragmentary and generally so depauperated and stunted 

 that the most careful search is required. 



OpMolepis Damesii, not definitely found in situ here before, has 

 occurred, and with it some other Echinoderms which may be new. 

 Many fine examples of Pholidophorus HigginsiYuaxe been secured which 

 exhibit the dermal armature well, and also the fins. Some curious 

 concretionary structures, homoeomorphs of orthoceratoid segments, 

 occur here also. The usual fauna already described has been obtained, 

 some fine examples of each species having been collected. It is hoped 

 to describe the new forms very shortly. 



V. — On the Discovery of Remains of Iguanodojx Mantelli in the 



Wealden Beds of Brigustone Bast, I.W., and the Adaptation 



of the Pelvic Girdle in relation to an Erect Position and 



Bipedal Progression. By R. "W. Hooley. 2 



rPHE specimen of which the paper treated was discovered by the 



X author in 1899 ; it includes the sacrum, lumbar, and caudal 



vertebrae, bones of the pelvic girdle, and the left femur. The 



1 A further grant of £75 was made at the Portsmouth Meeting, and Dr. W. T. 

 Caiman was added to the Committee. 



2 Read before Section C (Geology), British Association, Portsmouth, 

 September, 1911. 



