544 Dr. F. R. Cowper Reed — Sedgwick MuseiiTn Notes. 



statement as to its systematic position than that it is an Arthropod 

 incertce sedis. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVIII. 



Arthropleura Moyseyi, n.sp. x 2. This figure has been prepared, in 

 the main, from that half of the nodule in which the fossil is exposed in 

 relief, but certain details have been added from a ' squeeze ' made from the 

 counterpart. 



Nodule obtained from yellow clays below 'Top Hard Coal', Coal-measures, 

 Shipley Clay-pit, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Original preserved in the collection 

 of Dr. Lewis Moysey, B.A., M.B., F.G.S. 



I 



IV, — Sedgwick Museum Notes. 



Steickland's Collectiont. 



By F. R. CowPER Reed, Sc.D., F.G.S. 



T may be of interest to the readers of the Geological Magazine to 

 know that the specimens collected by Mr. H. E. Strickland 

 during the years 1835-6 in the Ionian Islands, the Bosphorus, and 

 the neighbourhood of Smyrna are now preserved in the Sedgwick 

 Museum, Cambridge. They comprise' the fossils and rocks to which 

 he referred in the following papers published many years ago in the 

 Transactions and Journal of the Geological Society : — 



1. " Geology of the Thracian Bosphorus" : Trans. Geol. Soc, ser. ii, 



vol. V, pt. ii, pp. 385-91, 1840 (read November 30, 1836). 



2. " Geology of the Neighbourhood of Smyrna " : ibid., pp. 393-402 



(read April 5, 1837). 



3. "Geology of the Island of Zante " : ibid., pp. 403-9 (read 



November 1, 1837). 



4. " On a Tertiary Deposit near Lixouri in the Island of Cepha- 



lonia": Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. iii, pp. 110-13, 

 1847 (read May 3, 1837). 



1. The Lower Devonian fossils from the Bosphorus were named by 

 Murchison and Sowerby in the paper quoted, and apparently were 

 regarded as indicating a Silurian age for the beds. They are of 

 special interest as the first ones ever brought back to England from 

 that region for scientific study ; and they include several of the 

 species subsequently described from these beds by De Verneuil, 

 Eoemer, and Kayser. The Tertiary fossils recorded and roughly 

 identified by Strickland from the locality termed Baloukli belong to 

 the Sarmatian stage, and amongst them may be recognized the 

 characteristic shell JErvilia podolica. These beds ai-e described as 

 overlaid by freshwater limestones, and the fossils which the latter 

 contain appear to be similar to those recorded by Hochstetter from 

 the same district. 



2. The plant remains from the neighbourhood of Smyrna are 

 probably similar to those described by Unger from these parts. 

 Dr. Arber is now examining them. 



3. The fossils from the Mesozoic and Tertiary beds of Zante are in 

 a poor state of preservation, and require farther study in the light of 

 the work done by Fuchs and Renz. 



