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sliowing the latest novelties in the British Museum to those who 

 could appreciate them and publish the new facts in a form that 

 would tend to the advancement of knowledge. From 1865 onwards, 

 however, Mr. Davies was an occasional contributor to the Geologi- 

 cal Magazine; and in 1886 he added a short description of the 

 Vertebrate fossils to Dr. Henry Hicks' paper on the caves of the 

 Yale of Clwyd in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 

 Apart from incidental observations and letters, these contributions 

 may be enumerated as follows : — 



1865. On the Preservation of Fossil Mammalian Eemains found in Tertiary Deposits, 

 Geol. Mag. Vol. II. pp. 239, 240. 



1871. Alphabetical Catalogue of Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes in the British 



Museum, ibid. Vol. VIII. pp. 208-216, 334. 



1872. On the Rostral Prolongations of Squaloraia polyspondyla, Ag., ibid. Vol. IX. 



pp. 145-150, PI. IV. 



1874. (With H. Woodward.) Notes on the Pleistocene Deposits yielding Mam- 

 malian Remains in the Vicinity of llford, Essex, ibid. Dec. II. Vol. I. 

 pp. 390-398. 



1876. On the Exhumation and Development of a large Reptile [Omosaurus armatus, 

 Owen), from the Kimmeridge Clay, Svrindon, ibid. Dec. II. Vol. III. 

 pp. 193-197, Pis. VII. VIII. 



1878. On a Collection of Pleistocene Mammals Dredged off the Eastern Coast, ibid. 

 Dec. II. Vol. V. pp. 97-100. 



1878. On the Nomenclature of Saurocephalus lanciformis of the British Cretaceous 



Deposits ; with Description of a New Species (iS. Woodwardii), ibid. Dec. II. 

 Vol. V. pp. 254-261, PI. VIII. 



1879. On some Fish Exuvise from the Chalk, generally referred to Dercetis elongatus, 



Ag. ; and on a New Species of Fossil AnneUde, Terebella Lewesiensis, ibid. 

 Dec. II. Vol. VI. pp. 145-148. 



1879. On some Recently Discovered Teeth of Onbos moschatiis from Crayford, Kent, 



ibid. Dec. II. Vol. VI. pp. 246-248. 



1880. On some Fossil Bird-Remains from the Siwalik Hills in the British Museum, 



ibid. Dec. II. Vol. VII. pp. 18-27, PL II. 

 1880. On some Bones of the Lynx from Teesdale, obtained by Mr. James Backhouse, 



of York, ibid. Dec. II. Vol. VII. pp. 346-349, Pis. XL XII. 

 1884. Note on Remains of the Emu from the Wellington Caves, New South Wales, 



ibid. Dec. III. Vol. I. p. 265. 

 1884. Note on some New Carnivores from the British Eocene Formations, ibid. 



Dec. III. Vol. I. pp. 433-438, PL XIV. 



1886. Note on the Animal Remains from some Bone-Caves in North Wales (Ffynnon 



Beuno and Cae Gwyn), Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc. vol. xlii. pp. 17-19. 



1887. On New Species of Pholidophorus from the Purheck Beds of Dorsetshire, 



Geol. Mag. Dec. III. Vol. IV. pp. 337-339, PL X. 



Mr. Davies' long association with Sir Antonio Brady in recovering 

 the remains of fossil Mammalia from the brick-fields near llford, 

 resulted in 1874 in the publication of "A Catalogue of the Pleisto- 

 cene Vertebrata in the Collection of Sir Antonio Brady," which is 

 of great value on account of its well-known accuracy. This was 

 the only separate publication he undertook as author, though by 

 no means the only one in the preparation of which he played an 

 important part. In Fossil Fishes, Prof. L, G. de Koninck acknow- 

 ledges Mr. Davies' important aid when preparing the first part of 

 the " Faune Calc. Carbonif. Belgique " ; and the author of the first 

 two volumes of the British Museum Catalogue of Fossil Fishes 

 expresses his indebtedness to Mr. Davies, not only for much advice, 

 but also for his revision of the whole of the proof-sheets. Notwith- 



