574 Corres^jondence — F. P. Mennell — G. A. J. Cole. 



A number of places where such, sand is met with is given by these 

 writers and others, but as no mention, as far as I am aware, is made 

 of Skrinkle Haven, I thought it might be of sufficient interest to 

 justify this note. Hakford J. Lowe, F.G.S. 



Torquay. 



SOUTH AFRICAN PETEOGEAPHY. 



Sir, — In my paper on the above subject in the August number 

 I should like to point out two errors. Fig. 4 represents the diorite 

 described immediately above it, and not, as stated, the granite 

 referred to on p. 364. The other error, for which I am myself 

 responsible, is in a reference to the melilite-bearing rock of the 

 Spiegel Eiver in Cape Colony (p. 366). This was discovered by 

 Messrs. Eogers & Schwarz, of the Cape Geological Commission, 

 and described by them in the report of that body for 1898, p. 62. 

 Professor Cohen's description referred to is of a Transvaal rock of 

 a similar character, and I cannot now account for having confused 

 it with the other. My delay in correcting this slip is due to absence 

 up country, during which I received no papers. F. P. Mennell. 



Ehodesia Museum, Bulawayo, 1902. 



THE CEUMLIN METEORITE. 



Sir, — In your issue for November, p. 521, you remark in regard 

 to the meteoric stone that fell at Crumlin on September 13th, that 

 " no one [in Ireland] thought it worth while to investigate what 

 appeared to be a hoax." May I state, as I have already done in 

 the Irish Times, that the first newspaper notice of the event appeared 

 in the Northern Whig for Sept. 17th, when I was crossing to Scotland. 

 This contained so clear an account that I never suspected the fall to 

 be other than genuine, and at once commenced negotiations on behalf 

 of the Museum in Dublin. Mr. Walker, the owner of the stone, 

 although at the time unwell, replied promptly ; but I was by then 

 travelling in Scotland, and his letter was forwarded to me to an 

 •incorrect address. Consequently, I received it only on October 29th, 

 and had heard long before that the stone had been, very naturally, 

 secured for the British Museum. Grenville A. J. Cole. 



Dublin, Nov. 3rd, 1902. 



FOSSILS OF THE OXFOED lEON-SANDS. 



Sir, — As the fresh-water fossils of the Oxford Iron-sands are 

 now so difficult to obtain, it is worth noting that during a traverse 

 of the Lower Cretaceous outcrop which I made in June last 

 I chanced to find a place where these fossils can be obtained in 

 abundance, though not from rock actually in situ. The locality 

 is Combe Wood, about half a mile south of Wheatley Station and 

 five miles E.S.E. of Oxford. A low stone wall on the western side 

 of the high road which flanks this wood on the west is in places 

 built of thin, flaggy iron-grit crowded with the casts of Unio, 

 Cyrena, PaJudina, etc. The stone for this old wall must have been 

 ■obtained in the immediate vicinity, probably from a small pit now 



