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the usual hours that the Museum is open, but continue to give his 
advice and assistance to the Committee and its officers when required. 
It was further resolved that the salary of Mr. Frank Leney,’ Assistant 
Curator, be raised to £200 per annum from January 1, 1910, and that 
the consideration of the appointment of a Curator to fill the position 
to be vacated by Mr. James Reeve be deferred until after June 24, 1910. 
At a subsequent meeting on February 15 Dr. EH. E. Blyth, 
the newly-constituted? Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, with the 
Aldermen and Councillors, adopted the report of the Museum Com- 
mittee, and passed a cordial and well-deserved eulogium on Mr. James 
Reeve for his long and valuable services to the City of Norwich and 
its Museum. The Lord Mayor added that it was mainly due to 
Mr. Reeve that the Castle Museum contained more gems and less rubbish 
than any other of the Municipal Galleries in England. We heartily 
rejoice at the recognition given by the Corporation of Norwich to 
Mr. James Reeve for his valuable services, and trust that his life 
may long be spared to enjoy his comparative leisure and the well- 
earned appreciation of his fellow-citizens in Norwich. 
In Memory or Dr. Survon, or Lresmanacow, LanaRrKsHIRE. 
So long ago as 1855, at the Meeting of the British Association, 
Mr. Robert Slimon exhibited in Glasgow a remarkable series of fossils 
from Lesmahagow. Among these was a series of Crustacean remains, 
with curious scale-like markings, exposed upon the surface of dark- 
coloured schist or flags, to which Mr. David Page called Sir Roderick 
Murchison’s attention. Murchison at once recognized them as the 
remains of Pterygotus, and from the nature of the matrix concluded 
they belonged to the uppermost Silurian zone. At the close of the 
meeting, accompanied by Sir Andrew Ramsay and Dr. Slimon, 
Murchison visited the district, and, as the result of that visit, a very 
important addition was made to Scottish geology. Shortly afterwards 
Murchison read a paper to the Geological Society of London,* in which 
he stated that the dark fossiliferous shales exposed in the Logan Water 
pass conformably upwards into the Old Red Sandstone of that district. 
His paper was illustrated by a horizontal section showing the relation- 
ship that existed between the Upper Silurian strata of that region 
and the Old Red Sandstone. In his paper he also pointed out that 
Dr. Slimon’s collection contained sculptured plates of Crustaceans 
exactly similar to those which had already been referred to Pterygotus. 
Associated with these he had found specimens of Lingula cornea and 
Trochus helicites shells, which were characteristic of the Upper Silurian 
rocks of Wales. Such, then, is a brief account of this remarkable 
discovery in Scottish geology made by Dr. Slimon sixty years ago. 
The earliest Crustacean fossils, collected so zealously by Mr. Shimon, 
1 Formerly of the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W. 
2 By command of His Majesty the King, February 2, 1910, that ‘‘the Chief 
Magistrate of the capital of the ‘ King’s county’ (Nortolk) should be raised to the 
rank of Lord Mayor”’ (Hastern Daily Press, February 16, 1910). 
5 See Q.J.G.S., 1856, vol. xii, pp. 15-19. 
