326 Reports and Proceedings — 



The Council of the Essex Field Club have resolved novp- to issue 

 their " Transactions " and " Proceedings " combined in the form of a 

 monthly periodical under the name of the " Essex Naturalist." This 

 periodical should command an extensive circulation, for it includes 

 many short notes of interest connected with the .county, as well as 

 papers read before the club ; among the illustrations is a reproduction 

 of Norden's Map of Essex, printed in 1594. 



VI. — Transactions of the Leeds Geologioai- Association. 



THIS Geological Association, which has been established twelve 

 years, commenced in 1885 the publication of its Transactions. The 

 first part contained the papers read during the sessions 1883-85, 

 and the second part (just received) contains the record of the Pro- 

 ceedings during 1885-86. The papers are printed only in abstract, 

 and they include the Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. C. D. 

 Hardcastle, on the Geology of Ingleton and the neighbourhood ; an 

 account of Recent Discoveries of Carboniferous Vegetation in York- 

 shire, by the Hon. Secretary, Mr. S. A. Adamson ; notes on the Drift 

 of the North of England by Prof. Green : and various other papers. 

 There are also reports of Field Excursions, which contain informa- 

 tion of much local interest. 



iRIEIFOS-TS -A.3NrXD IPE-OOJEIEIDXITvS-S. 



Geological Society op London. 



I.— May 25, 1887.— Prof J. W. Judd, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. — The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Remains of Fishes from the Keuper of Warwick and 

 Nottingham." By E. T. Newton, Esq., F.G.S. ; with Notes on 

 their Mode of Occurrence by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., 

 and E. Wilson, Esq., F.G.S. 



This paper gave an account of two series of fossil fishes which 

 have been discovered in British Triassic strata. The specimens are 

 very fragmentary, but the rarity of Ganoid fish-remains in the 

 English Trias lends considerable intei'est to these discoveries. The 

 first series noticed were obtained by the Rev. P. Brodie in the 

 Upper Keuper of Shrewby, and consist of some half dozen portions 

 of fish, all small and much broken. The characters of the scales and 

 the positions of the fins, together with as much of the form as can be 

 made out, point to their belonging to the genus Semionotus. The 

 second series were obtained by Mr. E. Wilson, F.G.S., of the Bristol 

 Museum, from Keuper Beds near Nottingham. A large number of 

 specimens were in this case collected ; but all of them are too mi ch 

 broken and crushed out of shape to allow anything very definite 

 to be said about them. Some of these also appear to be Semio- 

 notus ; they agree in size, as well as in some other particulars, with 

 the Shrewby fishes, and may perhaps belong to the same species ; 

 but others, on account of their strongly heterocercal tail and orna- 

 mented scales, seem to belong to the Palasoniscidse. The presence 

 of a third form among these Nottingham fishes is indicated by 



