140 Miscellaneous. 
—Natural History, Local Geology, Botany, and Horticulture. The 
Meetings will be held in the counties of Hants, Berks, Oxford, 
Surrey, Sussex, and Kent, in succession. ‘The counties of Wilts, 
Dorset, &c., are already included in the Bath and West of England 
Society. 
FossiL-HUNTING Geologists may like to be informed that the late 
gales have laid bare a vast tract of the line of cliffs extending 
between Milfcrd and Christchurch, known as the Barton and 
Beacon Cliffs, abounding in marine and freshwater deposits, of 
Middle and Upper Eocene Age. ‘The late gales have also wrought 
a great change in the shingle-bed connecting Hurst Castle with 
the main-land. This natural breakwater, 200 feet high, has been 
broken through by the sea, and Hurst Castle at high water now 
stands on an island. 
Burntisland also, in the Firth of Forth, has had its shores much 
affected by the storms of this winter. 
A New Coat-FIELD IN YORKSHIRE.—An important discovery, 
likely to change entirely the aspect of the district, is stated to have 
been made in the Vale of Mowbray, near Thirsk, North Riding. At 
a place known as ‘ Nevison Farm’ it has been found that coal exists ; 
and as the geological contour and formation are much like that of 
the great Durham Coal-basin, it is conjectured that the southern 
limit of that deposit may be at Thirsk. It is further reported that 
signs of the existence of copper-ore had also been discovered in the 
same neighbourhood. Of course the discovery of coal in so close 
a proximity to the great ironstone-deposits of the Yorkshire Moor- 
lands would be of the highest benefit to that district of the North 
Riding. 
ENTOMOSTRACA IN CopROLITES.—A very fine take of a rare and 
comparatively large Entomostracan—Cypridina Rankineana—has 
recently been made by Mr. John Young, of Glasgow. In breaking 
up a coprolite from a shale-bed in the Lower Carboniferous series 
at Carluke, he obtained no less than 300 specimens of this species ; 
nearly all of them perfect and well preserved. The coprolite was 
two inches in length and one inch in breadth. Previous to the dis- 
covery of these specimens, only a single example of this Cypridina 
was known to exist. 
Note.—This association of Bivalved Entomostraca and Fishes 
reminds us of Dr. Baird’s remarks ‘on the food of some freshwater 
Fishes,’ in the Berwicksh. Club Transact., where he describes at 
least two new species got out of the stomachs of Trout.—EpirTor. 
Triassic REPTILES IN THE NatTronaL CoLitection.—The British 
Museum has recently secured the unique and interesting remains of 
Teratosaurus Suevicus, found in the Upper Keuper Sandstone near 
Stuttgart, and described and figured by Hermann von Meyer in 
the ‘ Paleontographica,’ vol. vii. p. 258, pl. xlv. 
The only remains of this singular Triassic Reptile at present known 
are a portion of the head (consisting of the maxillary, nasal, and 
