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whole had been done by marine action, why does not the vertical 

 cliff structure continue up the valley prolongation of the Fjord to the 

 Norwegian watershed ? Faithfully yours, 



Geokge Maw. 



Benthall Hall, ttear Broselet, 

 November 10th, 1866 



DISCOVERT OF AMPTX NUDUS AT MALVERN. 



In the November number of the Geological Magazine, at p. 519, 

 we stated that Mr. E. B. Kemp-Welch had informed us of the 

 discovery of Ampyx nudus in the Woolhope Limestone, at Col- 

 wall, near Malvern. We stated that the specimen of Ampyx shown 

 to us by Dr. Grindrod, — and supposed to be that discovered by Mr. 

 Kemp-Welch— was manufactured, and in that opinion we are con- 

 firmed by our correspondent. Dr. Harvey B. Holl, F.G.S., of 

 Elderslie House, Worcester, who says in a letter just received, 

 "the specimen is composed of the tail of Phacops Downingice; the 

 rest is artificial." 



Having since been favoured with a letter from Miss Eyton, of 

 Eyton, near Wellington, dated November 3rd, stating that she was 

 present at the discovery of Mr. Kemp-Welch's Ampyx, and can 

 testify to its genuineness ; and having also been favoured with 

 another letter from Mr. Kemp-Welch, dated from Poole, Dorset, 

 5th November, protesting against the condemnation of his interest- 

 ing specimen, we cannot but imagine that the Trilobite discovered 

 by Mr. Kemp- Welch has been mislaid by Dr. Grindrod, and that 

 the supposed Ampyx examined hj Dr. Holl and myself, is one of 

 those manufactured specimens only too frequently sold to the un- 

 wary visitor to the Malvern and Dudley districts, and accidentally 

 placed in the Doctor's Museum. ''-Ampyx nudus," says Dr. Holl, 

 " has not hitherto been found in the Malvern district." — H. W. 



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William Hopkins, M.A., LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S., so distinguished 

 for his researches illustrative of the application of Mathematics and 

 Physics to Geology, died in October last. We understand that for 

 some time past his health had been gradually declining. He resigned in 

 1865, his fellowship of the Eoyal Society, to which he had been elected 

 in 1837. In the Geological Society of London he filled the office 

 of President, during the Sessions 1851-52, and 1852-53, previous to 

 which, in 1850, he had received the Wollaston Medal from Sir Charles 

 Lyell, who on that occasion, gave an outline of his principal 

 geological researches. In 1854 he filled the office of President to 

 the British Association at the Meeting at Hull, and held the same 

 office in the Cambridge Philosophical Society, in which Transactions 

 many of his most important papers were published. It is said, that 

 he used to complain, that he could not get Geologists to understand his 

 mathematics, nor Mathematicians to take an interest in his geology. 



