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by Dr. Hooker in the Meraoirs of the Geological Survey. There is 

 evidently a marked difference between the two specimens. Dr. 

 Brown's came from France, and he states that M. Brongniart had in 

 his possession a similar one from Strasbourg. However, nothing 

 was known of the locality or formation from which these specimens 

 were obtained. I had little doubt in my mind that they came from 

 the Coal-measures, but I had no evidence to prove the fact. A short 

 time ago Mr. Wilde, of Oldham Edge, allowed me to slice a Lepidos- 

 trobus obtained by him from a nodule found in the Upper Toot coal 

 of Oldham, the same seam from which I have for a long time ob- 

 tained specimens, and I met with evidence which established its 

 identity with Lepidostrohus Brownii. The size of the specimen, the 

 form of the sporangia, and their arrangement around the central axis, 

 as well as their contents, a great numbers of spores, showing a triple 

 arrangement of sporules, are the same in both. The central axis of 

 the strobilus affords evidence of similar structure to that found in 

 the stem of Lepidodendron vascidare described and figured by me in 

 the " Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society" for 1862, namely, 

 hexagonal tubes having all their sides bound by transverse striae and 

 by wanting the internal radiating cylinder found in Sigillaria vas- 

 cularis. I am, yours truly, 



Edwakd W. Binney. 

 Manchester, March 21, 1866. 



GONIOPHYLLUM IN THE WENLOCK SHALE. 



To the Editor of the Geological Magazine. 



Dear Sik, — It may be interesting to some of your readers to know 

 that Mr. L. P. Capewell of Dudley has found a very perfect example 

 of the Goniophyllum pyramidale, His., (and of 

 which I enclose a drawing) in the Upper Wen- 

 lock Shale of Dudley. It appears to be the first 

 example of this interesting fossil hitherto dis- 

 covered in our British Silurian rocks, and is at- 

 tached to a specimen of HeMolithes. It agrees qonioputllum 

 well with a young Swedish example of Gonio- pyramidale, his. 

 phyllum pijramidale, described and figured by Herr uppeewbnlock shale, 

 Lindstrom (pi. xxx., fig. 4) in his excellent 

 memoir on " Zoantharia Eugosa." Having submitted a carefully 

 made drawing of our English specimen to Herr Lindstrom, he has 

 entirely concurred with the identification here given. 

 I am. Dear Sir, yours faithfully, 



Thos. Davidson. 



REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC MAN IN CENTRAL INDIA. 



To the Editor of the Geological Magazine. 



SiK, — I intended to have sent you a notice of my having found, on 

 the bank of the Godavery river, south of Arungabad, traces of 



