100 A Retros2)evt of Pakeonfology for Furtij Years. 



(1884 and 1890) two papers on fossil Mollnsca from South Australia, 

 Professor T. Eupert Jones (189U) doscribed bivalved shells fronii 

 the Karoo formation of South Africa; R. B. Newtou (1898-99) 

 some Cretaceous and Miocene shells from Egypt ; a large number of 

 Pleistocene shells from a raised beach on the Red Sea (1900) ; 

 Mesozoic fossils from Borneo (1897) ; and lastly, Trematonotns, 

 an American Palaeozoic Gasteropod, found in Britain (1892). 

 R. J. L, Guppy gave a list of Tertiary fossils from Trinidad 

 (1865) ; described Crepitacella and six new species of MoUusca fronv 

 the Caribbean Miocene (in 1867) ; and some West Indian Tertiary 

 fossils, chiefly Mollusca (in 1874). H. Woodward (in 1879) 

 described a series of 74 species of Tertiary Mollusca, obtained by 

 M. Verbeek from Sumatra (pp. 385, 441, 492, 535). Dr. A. H. 

 Foord (1890) figured a number of fossils from the Kimberley 

 District of Western Australia. H. M. Jenkins (1866) wrote on 

 Trigonia from the Tertiary deposits of Victoria, Australia ; and 

 Professor M'Coy replied to his criticism on the species of Trigonia. 

 Dr. 0. A. L. Morch (in 1871) described the Mollusca of the Crag 

 formation of Iceland, giving a list of 61 species. " At present " 

 (wrote Dr. Morch) '* the north coast of Iceland is quite Arctic, but 

 in the Crag period the temperature must have been much milder, 

 at least as mild as at present on the west coast of Reikiavik." The 

 change had, the author believed, resulted from an elevation of the 

 land, which had prevented the free passage northwards of the great 

 equatorial current of the Gulf Stream. Sir J. Prestwich wrote, in 

 1882, on Cyrena fluminalis found at Summertown. near Oxford, and 

 R. G. Bell, in 1884, on Land-Shells from the Red Crag. 



Cephalopoda. — During the past forty years the class Cephalopoda 

 received special attention from many expert writers, as will be seen 

 from the following summary : — An excellent general history of 

 the Cephalopoda, Recent and Fossil, was contributed in 1878 by 

 Agnes Crane, which may still be read with pleasure and profit. 

 In 1887 Dr. F. A. Bather wrote on "The Growth of Cephalopod 

 Shells," and carefully described and figured the internal structure 

 of the shell, giving his own views on the subject as well as 

 Dr. Riefstahl's. Another article of general interest was that com- 

 municated by Dr. A. H. Foord describing the Cephalopod Gallery 

 of the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road (1895^ 

 p. 391), illustrated by 27 figures; it still serves as an excellent 

 guide to the series of Ammonites exhibited. Among the dibranchiate 

 forms abundantly represented among the living Cephalopoda, but 

 so rare in a fossil state, there is a charming little form which was 

 figured and described by H. Woodward under the name of Dorn- 

 teuthia syriaca, from the Ci"etaceous beds of Sahel Alma, near Beirut, 

 Lebanon, Syria (1883). Other and larger forms have since been 

 recorded by that author and by G. C. Crick from the same locality. 

 The remarkable thing is the preservation on the slab of the outlines 

 and much of the details of the soft structures of the animal as was 

 observed in Belemnoteuihis and other forms from the Oxford Clay of 

 Chippenham, and described in 1842 by Pearce & Owen. G. C Crick 



