48 Correspondence — Messrs. Lydehker, Keeping, and Dalton. 



Tiipara, while Plesiosorex soricinoides is a totally different form, 

 whose affinities, as stated by Pomel, are rather with Myogale. I am. 

 further led to conclude that Fraas' identification of Erilcaceus 

 arvernensis of De Blainville, with Plesiosorex soricinoides is likewise 

 erroneous, and that the fauna is probably identical with E. arvernensis 

 of Gervais.^ 



The specimen entered in the Museum Catalogue under the name 

 Plesiosorex must therefore be named Parasorex, and the former genus 

 referred to the Talpidm. This error will be noticed in the supple- 

 ment to be published in part v. of the Museum Catalogue; but as the 

 publication of that part will be several months hence, I have thought 

 it advisable to correct the error as soon as possible, 



Harpenden, Lee. 10, 1886. E. Lydekker. 



ON THE OSBOENE BEDS. 

 Sir, — I wish to correct a mis-statement of my views respecting the 

 position of the Osborne Beds, which appears in the Report of the 

 International Geological Congress for 1885, and also I find is repro- 

 duced in Mr. Jukes-Browne's new Handbook of Historical Geology. 

 My opinion has always been that the Osborne Beds should have 

 been a part of the Bembridge Series, and not a separate member. 

 Woodwardian Museum, H. KEEPING. 



Cambridffe. 



THE COLLINGHAM OB, SCAELE BOEING. 



Sir, — In the recently issued Report of the British Association for 

 1885, pp. 388, 389, the original inaccurate account of this boring 

 is reproduced, and I am credited with the alternative figures given 

 in a second column. 



Permit me to state that I have published no account of the boring, 

 and that the figures alleged to be mine do not coincide with the 

 section preserved among my papers, viz. : — 



Gravel 21 feet. 



Lias 29 



Ehsetic 13 



Keuper Marls 688 



Keuper Sandstone 205|- 



Bunter " Pebble Beds " 319 



Lower Bunter 223 



-pr /-Marls l\^ 



upper Limestone 434 



Permian < -»«- i t <rn 



„„„i ) Marls 150 



"^°"2 l Limestone 68J 



Lower / Sandstone 20 



Permian ' Marl Slates 118 



139 (Breccia 1 



Coal Measure Shales 12 



2032 

 The site is not in the parish of Scarl^<Tiincolnshire, but in Colling- 

 ham, Notts. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., 



Late H.M. Geological Survey. 



1 See "Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus." pt. i. pp. 17, 18. . 



