104 A. 8. Woodward — Belgian Neozoic Fish-teeth. 



pit has beeii described by a very experienced geologist as one of the 

 Kangra moraines. The solid rock under the loose stuff was newly 

 laid bare. It is not glaciated. The whole of the stuff was sorted 

 by running water, and the big stones strewed on the top evidently 

 are the largest and heaviest in an old river deposit laid bare by 

 late rains which have washed away smaller stuff. There was no 

 moraine stuif in the section, no clay, and no scratched stones any- 

 where." 



Mr. Campbell is most emphatic in his conclusion that the 

 Himalayas present us with no evidence of a Glacial period. Glaciers 

 exist there, and may have been larger. " While," he says, " Scandi- 

 navian and Alpine ice has shrunk by many meridian degrees, old 

 Himalayan glaciers have left no mark within a few miles. It seems 

 as reasonable to account for the length of an icicle by a Glacial 

 period, as to summon that cause to account for any extension of 

 Indian ice of which I was able to obtain proofs, from maps and 

 surveyors, geologists and papers, photography and photographers, 

 and travellers" {id. p. 118). 



{To he continued in our next Number.) 



II. — Notes on some Fish-remains from the Lower Tertiary and 

 Upper Cretaceous of Belgium, Collected by Monsieur A. 

 Houzeau de Lehaie. 



By Akthur Smith Woodwakd, F.G.S., F.Z.S. 

 (PLATE III. Figs. 1-17.) 



SOME time ago the writer was favoured by Monsieur A. Houzeau 

 de Lehaie with the opportunity of studying his extensive col- 

 lection of teeth and other remains of fishes from the Bruxellian 

 Eocene, near Brussels, and the " Craie brune phosphatee de Ciply," 

 near Mons. Monsieur Houzeau has generously presented a tine 

 series of these fossils to the British Museum, and the following 

 notes are based upon the collection. 



I. The Fish-fauna of the Bruxellian Eocene. 



Like the contemporaneous Bracklesham Beds in England, the 

 Bruxellian Sands of Woiuwe St. Lambert, near Brussels, yield only 

 very fragmentary remains of fishes. These have been studied more 

 especially by M. H. Le Hon i and Dr. T. C Winkler ;2 and MM. 

 P. J. Van Beneden ^ and L. Dollo * have contributed additional notes. 



' H. Le Hon, " Preliminaires d'un Memoire sur les Poissons Tertiaires de 

 Belgique" (1871). 



^ T. C. Winkler, "Memoire stir des Dents de Poissons du Terrain bruxellien," 

 Archiv. Mus. Teyler, yol. iii. (1874), pp. 295-304, pi. vii. ; also ibid. vol. iv. (1876), 

 pp. 16-48, pi. ii. 



^ P. J. Van Beneden, "Eecherches sur quelques Poissons fossiles de Belgique," 

 Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. [2], vol. xxxi. (1871), pp. 153-179. Also "Notice siir un 

 nouveau Poisson du Terrain bruxellien," ibid. vol. xxxv. (1873), pp. 255-259, -with 

 plate {Homorhynchus bruxelliensis) . 



* L. Dollo, "Premiere Note sur les Teleosteens du Bruxellien (Eocene moyen) de 

 la Belgique," Bull. Soc. Belg. Geol. etc. vol. iii. (1889), Proc.-Verb. pp. 218-226 

 {Arius Egertoni). 



