A. R. Horwood— Post-Pleistocene of Central England. 548 
Soar VALLEY. 
In the county of Leicester itself no adequate account of any 
post-Pleistocene remains other than mammalia’ has been published. 
The first notice is the result of a natural history competition which 
was carried on for some years before the present Museum had assumed 
any important position. Mr. F. IT’. Mott? reported the discovery of 
shells of the genera Limnea, Succinea, etc., in gravel at Belgrave,’ 
stained with iron-oxide. This gravel is doubtless part of the alluvial 
sand and gravel which covers the lower part of the Soar Valley. 
This locality is north of the town. Somewhat to the south another 
locality, Aylestone (excavations for gasworks),* has afforded more 
abundant evidence of a flora and fauna similar to the existing one. 
Here in the Soar Valley the following section was exposed :— 
ft. ine 
1. Materials of a cart road ‘ : : 2 0 6 
2. Rough gravel (perhaps foundation of a road) LO 
3. Fine grey clay : : . z . ma) 
4, Black peat : : 1 6 
5. Soft white calcareous marl 2 0 
6. Red marl in situ. 
HOMO 
The lowest bed (5) was said to consist largely of Chara, and 
amongst the calcareous remains of the plant and seeds were numbers 
of fresh-water shells, Zimnea, Planorbis, Pisidium, Cypris, and other 
animal remains. 
The following is a list of the specimens found which passed into the 
hands of the late Mr. J. Plant, who gave them to the Museum :— 
PLANT”. Succmea putris. 
Chara vulgaris. Ancylus fluviatilis. 
cf. Potamogeton zosterefolius. Limnea peregra. 
L. peregra, var. ovata. 
= H . 
ANNELIDA. I. auricularia. 
Tubes. L. truncatula. 
(Sree Bythinia leachit. 
ey ; ¢ Planorbis nautileus. 
ef. Candona candida. P. fontanus. 
GASTEROPODA. a spirorbis. 
Ses j . parvus. 
Hyalinia cellaria. Ee 
a ira P. umbilicatus. 
Ene: Valvata piscinalis 
Felix pulchella. ; 
H. hispida. LAMELLIBRANCHIATA. 
Cochlicopa lubrica. Spherium corneum. 
Pupa muscorum. Pisidium amniewn. 
A single worn fragment of Ostrea edulis was amongst these 
otherwise lacustrine forms. The section was first noticed by the late 
Mr. W. J. Harrison, F.G.S., a former Curator. The deposits are 
1 A list of these up to 1889 was given in The Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire 
and Rutland. It was summarized recently in the ‘‘ Victoria County History” by 
Mr. R. Lydekker. Many additions must, however, be made to both. 
2 Report Leic. Lit. and Phil. Soc., 1875, p. 42. 
3 Mr. J. Plant found Rhinoceros teeth with Succinea, Limnea, etc., in the 
Abbey Park Road, a little north of the south end. 
4 Tbid., 1878, pp. 26-8. 
