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JAW APPARATUS OF DISCOIDEA. 
Srr,—In the course of examining and arranging some specimens of 
foreign Lehinoidea, formerly in the Wright Collection and recently 
purchased for the British Museum, I have found an internal cast in 
flint of a Discoidea, which, from its size and general contour, seems 
referable to D. cylindrica (Jam.), although it isa remarkably depressed 
form. This cast exhibits clear impressions of the dental apparatus in 
a fragmentary condition, at least three of the teeth being represented 
among the other portions of the jaws. ‘The characters of the jaws in 
this specimen accord, so far as they are visible, with those of the 
individual in the Manchester Museum (Groz. Mac., 1909, pp. 148- 
52), which is almost equally depressed in outline. In view of the 
extreme rarity of the preservation of the dental apparatus in this 
genus, the existence of an example in the National Collection seems 
worth a published record. Unfortunately the precise locality and 
horizon are unknown. ‘The specimen is registered HK. 10166. 
Hurpert L. Hawkins. 
University CoLttecr, REeapinec. 
February 17, 1910. 
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THE REV. GEORGE FERRIS WHIDBORNE, M.A., 
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Born 1846. Diep Frsruary 14, 1910. 
Ir is with deep regret we learn, from the Morning Post, February 17, 
of the death of our valued friend the Rev. G. F. Whidborne, M.A., 
at Hammerwood, East Grinstead, from an attack of pneumonia, in his 
sixty-fourth year. Mr. Whidborne formerly resided at Torquay, and 
in later years at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol. For the past 
twenty-five years he had devoted himself to figuring and describing 
‘“the Devonian fauna of the South of England”, in the annual 
volumes of the Paleontographical Society, the first part of which 
monograph appeared in vol. xli for 1888, and of which eleven fasciculi 
had been issued, the last part being published in 1907. Mr. Whidborne 
had served for many years on the Council of the Paleontographical 
Society, and has contributed papers to the Quarterly Journal of the 
Geological Society (in 1881 and 1883) and numerous papers to the 
Gxoroeicat Macazine (1889-1901). He was a most generous and 
kind-hearted man, an excellent paleontologist, and greatly esteemed 
by a very large circle of friends and fellow-workers. 
MISCHLILANHOUS. 
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Mr. James Reeve, F.G.S., anp tHe Norwicu Casrire Museum. 
The admirable Museum originally known as the ‘“‘ Norfolk and 
Norwich Museum” was initiated in February, 1825, by a small body 
of private gentlemen, naturalists and antiquaries connected with the 
