540 Dr. Wheelton Hind—Fossil Anthracoptera. 
number; and those only a few elytra of beetles; but now, through 
the intelligence and zeal of Mr. A’Court Smith in searching the rocks 
at Gurnet Bay, near Cowes, we owe the discovery of a large and 
varied series of Insects. My collection of Tertiary insects, number- 
ing nearly two thousand specimens, is still unnamed and undescribed ; 
and a few only of those in the British Museum, Natural History, 
are named and figured. It is much to be regretted that there 
is no English Entomologist who will undertake this work, 
and if Mr. Scudder was nearer, there is no one more competent 
to do this. Is there no one in this country who will take up the 
subject? No doubt those who have collections from the British 
Tertiaries, would willingly lend them for this purpose. I may add, 
that associated with these insects are several small feathers of birds, 
one of which is entire, the rest fragmentary. These are great rarities 
in British Tertiaries. 
IV.—Descrirtion ofr a SLAB FROM THE SHALE ABOVE THE KINDER 
Scour Grit, Rascurster, LancasHire. Obtained by Rh. H. 
TippEmay, Hsq., M.A., F.G.S. 
By Wuzretton Hinp, M.D., B.Sc. (Lond.), F.G.S. 
ENTION is made of this slab by Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., in his 
Presidential Address to the Royal Physical Society of Hdin- 
burgh, p. 50. The specimen is in the Museum of Natural History, 
Cromwell Road, South Kensington. 
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Piece of fossil wood, from the Shale above the Kinder Scout Grit, Lower Car- 
boniferous, Rabchester, Lancashire, surrounded by closely-packed shells of Anthra- 
coptera, which were doubtless attached to the wood by their byssi. 
The slab shows a piece of fossil wood 2? in. long by about 14 in. 
broad, the exact nature of which is not determinable on account of 
