84 Reports and Proceedings— 
REPORTS AND PROCHEHEDINGS. 
GroLocicat Society or Lonpon. 
J.—December 21st, 1892.—Prof. J. W. Judd, F-.R.S., Vice- 
President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman gave expression to the Society’s deep sense of the 
Toss which it had just sustained by the death of so distinguished a 
Fellow as Sir Richard Owen, who had been associated with the 
Society for no less than fifty-five years. He further announced 
that the Council, in causing a resolution of condolence to be for- 
warded to the bereaved family, had deputed Dr. Hicks and himself 
to represent the Society at Sir Richard’s funeral. 
In explanation of certain specimens of fossils exhibited by J. V. 
Parkes, Esq., F.G.S., and found in limestones about 11 miles north 
of Beltana Township, South Australia, Dr. G. J. Hinde said that 
the limestone slabs forwarded by Mr. Parkes were filled with the 
peculiar fossils belonging to the family Archeocyathine, which had 
been considered as probably allied to Perforate Corals. These 
fossils were widely distributed in rocks of Cambrian age in various 
parts of the world, having been found in Nevada, Labrador, Spain, 
and Sardinia, and they had lately been recognized in the same 
district in South Australia as that when Mr. Parkes specimens had 
been obtained, and an excellent description and figures of them 
were given by Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., in the “ Transactions of the 
The following communications were read :— 
1. “On a Sauropodous Dinosaurian Vertebra from the Wealden 
of Hastings.” By R. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 
In addition to Hoplosaurus armatus and Pelerosaurus Conybearei, 
there is evidence of another large Sauropodous Dinosaur in the 
Wealden, now known as Morosaurus brevis. Up to the present time 
it has been impossible adequately to compare Hoplosaurus armatus 
with Morosaurus brevis; but recently Mr. Rufford has sent to the 
British Museum an imperfect dorsal vertebra of a large Sauropodous 
Dinosaur from the Wealden of Hastings, which enabled the required 
comparison to be made. The Author describes the vertebra, con- 
trasts it with that of Hoplosaurus armatus, and gives presumptive 
evidence that it should be referred to the so-called Morosaurus 
Becklesi (Marsh), which apparently cannot be separated from 
M. (Cetiosaurus) brevis. He has not been able to compare Mr. 
Rufford’s specimen with the dorsals of the American Morosaurus, 
m order to discover whether the English Dinosaur is correctly 
referred to that genus. 
2. “On some additional Remains of Cestraciont and other Fishes 
in the Green Gritty Marls, immediately overlying the Red Marls of 
the Upper Keuper in Warwickshire.” By the Rev. P. B. Brodie, 
M.A., F.G.S. 
The vertebrate remains occur in a very thin band of marly friable 
sandstone lving between two heds of green marl, though in some 
places the same bed has itself no admixture of sandy material. 
