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endow it at once with a special interest. I should like to hear 
enquiries as to how it happens that, as yet, no remains of any 
Scotch ‘Old Red’ Fish have been met with in English ‘ Old Red’ 
rocks, as exposed in Herefordshire and the Border-counties gene- 
rally. Also, if Mr. Pengelly’s discovery in the Devonshire rocks 
of Fish-remains allied to the forms met with in the rocks of the 
Scottish Highlands (Middle Old Red) still stands alone. 
9. As regards the uppermost zone of the ‘ Old Red, —that known as 
the ‘ Yellow Sandstone,’ a typical exposure of which was described 
by Prof. Morris and myself in the Quart. Jour. Geol. Soe., vol. xviii. 
p- 94, as occurring in Shropshire,—I wish to call the attention of 
Geologists living in South Wales to its occurrence in the district 
between Haverfordwest and Tenby; and to the probability of it, as 
there exposed, yielding good fossils. Specimens of Pterichthys 
macrocephalus, Kg., should be keenly looked for. 
10. Questions which arise out of thestudy of the Carboniferous 
rocks, and Notes, which I feel sure may be easily gathered, of new 
discoveries, and fittingly enshrined in the GEoLoGIcAL MAGAZINE, are 
so many, that I will only indicate two matters which, if looked into, 
and the results preserved, will be of use in the advancement of 
knowledge. One is, that in the brown shaly coals of North Stafford- 
shire, Shropshire, and West Worcestershire, Reptilian bones occur 
far more numerously than we have imagined. I have myself, 
years ago, seen many specimens; but, unluckily, I regarded them as 
belonging to some Holoptychian Fish, and took no special heed 
of them. 11. The other subject is connected with one of the 
mysteries of the Carboniferous epoch; the botanical position of 
the Sigillaria with Stigmaria as its creeping root. When possible, 
it appears to be exceedingly desirable that a careful drawing should 
be taken of any large individual tree found in sit, before the ar- 
rangement and relationship of the root with the trunk are disturbed; 
as there appears some probability that the huge plant was more 
nearly allied to the Mosses than we have hitherto considered. Prof. 
Goeppert has lately figured, in the ‘Paleontographica’ (vol. xii. 
pl. 36), the filaments of Funaria hygrometrica (a well-known English 
Moss) side by side with an outspread mass of Stigmarian rootlets. 
But as I merely mean these remarks to be indicative of some of 
the many ways in which a ‘ Geological Notes and Queries’ would 
be useful, Ineed not add to the few examples I venture to offer. 
Glad of such aid myself, I shall be equally pleased to find that its 
worth is appreciated by others. Caipnen 1 Remes IaGee 
: » F.G.S. 
Gzou. Soc., Somerser House: Jan. 6, 1865. 
To the Editor of the GroLocicaL MAGAZINE. 
UnrortunateE Ly for our Irish Drift, shells have only been found 
very rarely, so that we must do without that kind of evidence; but 
nevertheless the different Drifts are well marked, and seem to cor- 
respond with those mentioned by your correspondent, Mr. Maw. 
