Befieics — The Bntcina)i Collection hi the Sheffield Museum. 37 



y. viediana (Leek., ex Bean MS.) ; N. teniunervis, Natli, ; Otozamltes 

 iu'iminatus (L. & H.) ; 0. Beani (L. & H.) ; 0. Bunhtiryaims, Zign. ; 

 O. Feistmanteli, Zign. ; 0. graphicus (Leek., ex Bean MS.) ; O. obtusus 

 (L. & H.), var. ooliticus ; 0. parallelns (Phill.) ; Fagiophyllnm William- 

 *oi«* (Brongn.) ; Fodozamites lanceolatiis (L. & H.) ; Ptilozamites 

 (Leek., ex Bean MS.) ; Taxites zamioides (Leek.) ; WilUamsonia 

 gigas (L. & H.) ; W. pecten (Phill.). 



The English flora is eompared by the author with Eha^tie, Jurassic, 

 and Wealden floras of other regions ; a eomparison is made also 

 between the fossil flora and the vegetation of the present day. 



VL — On the Fish Fauna of the Yokkshire Coalfields.^ By 

 Edgar D. Wellp.urn, F.G.S. 



ONLY the Lower and Middle Coal-measures are present. The 

 author described the Lower Measures, their extent and general 

 characters, with their beds of marine and fresh-water origin. The 

 Middle Measui-es and their general character : formed in a series of 

 fresh-water lake basins. The author described the fish-remains, 

 where found and in what state of preservation. Elasraobranchs, 

 Teleosteans (and in some cases Dipnoans), commingled, i.e. marine 

 and fresh-water types in the same beds ; Elasmobranchs found in 

 marine and fresh-water beds ; Dipnoi only found under fresh- water 

 conditions. Teleostean orders, Crossopterygii and Actinopterygii 

 found in both fresh- water and marine beds. The conditions under 

 which coal was deposited was shown to have a bearing on the 

 occurrence and habits of the fishes. The swim-bladder of Co3la- 

 canths, and its peculiar use to them under certain conditions. The 

 Elasmobranchii were represented by eleven genera and twenty-three 

 species ; Ichtbyodorulites by seven genera and eight species ; Dipnoi 

 by two genera and two species ; and the Teleostomi by twelve 

 genera and thirty-three species. A tabular list of fish-remains was 

 given showing their stratigraphical distribution ; several new fish- 

 bearing coal shales were recorded, the distribution and vertical 

 range of the Yorkshire coal-fishes being thus greatly extended ; 

 several genera and species new to Yorkshire, and others new to 

 science, were referred to by the author. 



I^ IE "V IIB AAT' S. 



-I. — Catalogue of the Bateilvn Collection of Antiquities in 



THE Sheffield Public Museum. Prepared by E. Howarth, 



F.R.A.S., F.Z.S., Curator of the Public Museum and Mappin Art 



Gallery. 8vo ; pp. xxiv and 2o4, with 2G2 illustrations in the 



text. Published by order of the Committee. (London : Dulau 



& Co., 1899. Price 3s. Qd.) 



rilHE very valuable and interesting collection which forms the 



X subject of this excellent Catalogue is not only entirely British, 



but is confined to Derbyshire, Staftbrdshire, and Yorkshire, and is 



the work of three generations of Batemans of Middleton Hall, 



1 Kead before the British Association, Section C (Geology), Bradford, Sept., 1900. 



