THE I 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE IV. VOL. VIII. 

 No. II.— FEBRUARY, 1901. 



HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY 



QUEEN VICTORIA 



PASSED AWAY 22 JANUARY, 1901, 



BELOVED AND MOURNED BY ALL HER PEOPLE, AFTER 

 A GLORIOUS REIGN OF 64 YEARS. 



OE,IC3-I3iT^^Xi ^A^K-TIGLES. 



I. — British Pleistocene Fishes. 

 By E. T. Newton, F.R.S., F.G.S., etc. 



rpHE search for small vertebrates in deposits of Pleistocene age 

 J_ has, within tlie last few years, been prosecuted with much zeal 

 by several workers, and has brought to light the remains of many 

 species of mammals, as well as birds, reptiles, and amphibia ; the 

 bones in some instances occurring in great numbers. The I'emains of 

 fishes, however, have but rarely been found with the bones of other 

 vertebrata, and never in any abundance. Some interesting discoveries 

 of fish-remains have nevertheless been made; but the records of 

 them are scattei'ed through various publications, and it seems very 

 desirable to bring all this information together. 



It is sixty years since Sir C. Lyell,^ in a paper read before the 

 Geological Society (January, 1840), first made known that remains 

 of fresh- water fishes had been fountl, by himself and Mr. J. B. 

 Wigham, in the fresh- water deposit which occui's in the cliff's at 

 Mundesley, Norfolk. These remains had been examined by the 

 Rev. Leonard Jennings and Mr. Yarrel, and were referred by them 

 to Perch, Carp, Pike, and Trout. 



In the following year (January, 1841) Sir C. Lyell ■ made 

 a further communication to the same society, in which he stated that 

 the fish-remains noted in the eai'lier paper, together with some 

 additional specimens from the same locality, had been submitted to 

 M. Agassiz, who thought the Perch, Pike, and Trout diifered from 

 the living species, and that the remains referred to Cai'p were really 



• Proc. Geol. Soc, vol.iii (1843), p. 171. Loud. & Edinb. Phil. Mag., May, 1S40. 



^ "Oa the Frusli-water Fossil Fishes of Afundesley as determined bv M. Agassiz " : 



Proc. Geol. Soc, vol. iii (1843), p. 362. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. viii (1842). p. 61 . 



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