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from the Sussex coast, for the most part from the neighbourhood 

 of Fairlight, acquired by the British Museum since 1895, the date 

 of publication of the second part of the Wealden Elora (British 

 Museum Catalogue). The majority of the fossils have been presented 

 to 'the National Collection by Father Felix Pelletier and Father 

 Teilhard de Chardin, by whom they were collected, and who worked 

 in association with Mr. Charles Dawson, F.S.A., F.G.S. ; the 

 remainder form part of the Rufford Collection. Fresh information 

 is given in regard to several previously recorded species, and the 

 following new types are described : A new species of Lycopodites 

 (a lycopodiaceous plant with the habit of a Selaginella) ; a new 

 species of Selaginellites, which affords evidence of hetei'ospory ; a new 

 species of Sausmannia, founded on several well-preserved fronds ;. 

 a new genus and species represented by incomplete fertile pinnae 

 with well-preserved spores very similar to those of recent Schizaeacese ; 

 a new genus and species of fern founded on fertile pinnae ; ApMehia sp. ; 

 a new species ot JDichopteris ; Ctenis sp. ; a new species of Conites; 

 Pinites sp., cf. P. dunheri, Carr. Additional information is given in 

 regard to the following species : Sagenopteris mantelli (Dunk.), 

 Matonidium gcepperti (Ett.), Ruffordia goepperti (Dunk.), Cladophlehis 

 hrownimia (Dunk.), WiUiamsonia carruthersi. Sew. (?), Otozarmtes 

 hlipsteini (Dunk.), Eurycycadolepis sp., Araucarites pippingfordensis, 

 TJng., Pinites solmsi, Sew., and Sphenolepidium hurrianum (Dunk.). 



The concluding section deals with Wealden floras generally, and 

 some account is given of the geographical distribution of the better- 

 known types. It is pointed out that, while there is a very close 

 similarity between the Wealden flora of England and the corresponding 

 floras in Eastern and Western ISTorth America, the number of cosmo- 

 politan types is less than in the case of the Middle Jurassic floras. 



2. " Notes on the Discovery of Fossiliferous Old Red Sandstone in 

 a Boring at Southall, near Ealing." By Ernest Proctor, A.R.C.S. 

 (Communicated by Professor W. W. Watts, Sc.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S.) 

 With a Note on the Fish-remains, by Dr. A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., Sec.G.S. 



The boring described in this paper is situated at Southall, and was 

 made for the purpose of obtaining water from the Lower Greensand. 

 For this purpose, however, the boring was a complete failure, as it 

 passed directly from the Gaultinto Palaeozoic rocks. The older rocks 

 were met with at a deptli of 1,130 feet, and continued with slight 

 variation to a depth of 1,261 feet, the lower limit of the borehole. 

 For the most part they were red and green mottled clays and 

 sandstones, with occasional bands of fine conglomerate. 



The fossils were yielded by definite bands, which varied from 

 1 inch to an eighth of an inch in thickness; they consisted mainly 

 of scales and teeth of HoloptycMus and plates of Bothriolepis, both 

 characteristic genera of the Old Red Sandstone. 



The paper concludes with a brief description of the fish-remains, 

 which, although fragmentary, are sufficient to indicate the Upper 

 Devonian or Upper Old Red Sandstone age of the rocks in which they 

 were discovered. 



