50 E. T. Newton — British Pleistocene Fishes. 



a species of Leuctscus. No statement was marie as to the nature of 

 the remains which had been found, nor what became of the specimens. 



M. Agassiz seems to have been impressed with the idea that 

 DO fossil forms could be identical with living species, and this, 

 apparently, led him to attach greater importance to the slight 

 differences, which he saw between the Mundesley remains and the 

 corresponding parts of living fishes, than would be allowed by 

 naturalists of the present day. Certain fish-remains, more recently 

 obtained from these fresh -water deposits at Mundesley, which in 

 all probability represent the same forms as those found by Lyell, 

 cannot, I think, be separated from living species. 



In the year 1854 Professor J. Morris' recorded Esox sp., from 

 the Pleistocene of Copford, Essex : the specimens were jaws and 

 teeth in the colleclion of Mr. Brown, and they are now preserved in 

 the British Museum, South Kensington (Nos. 36,658-60). Other 

 reinains of Pike from Copford were presented to the British 

 Museum by the Eev. 0. Fisher (No. 4,848). 



Twenty years elapsed before Mr. William Davies' recognized, in 

 1874, the remains of Pike in the collection of Sir Antonio Brady, 

 from the Brickearth of Ilford, specimens which are now in the 

 British Museum, South Kensington (No. 45,810). These remains 

 ■were doubtfully named JSsox lucins ?, but were acknowledged to be 

 inseparable from that species, and in 1890 were so named, without 

 douht, by Messrs. A. Smith Woodward and C. Davies Sherborn.' 

 During Mr. Clement Reid's * Geological Survey of the " Country 

 around Cromer," he obtained a number of specimens from the 

 classical Mundesley river bed, and among them remains of Pike, 

 Esox hidns (M.P.G.— C.R. 665-6). Since the Survey Memoir 

 was published, Mr. Eeid has collected from the same place scales 

 and teeth referable to Perca fliwintiHs (M.P.G. — C.R. 666) and 

 a tooth of the genus Zeuciscus (M.P.G. — C.R. 869). We are 

 thus able to confirm the occurrence of thi'ee of the forms recorded 

 by Sir C. Lyell ; and there seems no sufficient grounds for referring 

 them to other than recent species. Two or three different kinds of 

 scales remain at present unidentified, but none of them can be 

 definitely named Salmo, the fourth genus mentioned by Sir C. Lyell. 



Mr. Reid's researches in the neighbourhood of Holderness,* York- 

 shire, enabled him to record Perca flaviatilis from both Hornsea 

 (M.P.G.— C.R. 1.119) and Withernsea (M.P.G.— C.R. 1,071). 



In the year 1888 Mr. G. W. Lainplngh^ gave an account of 

 a deposit at Sewerby, near Bridlington Quay, which yielded bones 

 of Elephas, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, etc., and is doubtless of 

 Pleistocene age. With these mammalian bones were also found 

 vertebrae of fishes, which almost certainly belong to Codfish. This 

 record is the more interesting as it is the only known instance of 



> Catalogue of British Fossils, 2nd ed. (1854), p. 326. 



* Cat. Pleistocene Vert. Coll. Sir Ant. Brady, 1874, p. 61. 

 ' rataloo:ue of British Fossil Vertebrata. 



* Mem Gaol. Surv., 1882, p. 126. 



* Mem. Geol. t^urv., 1885, pp. 82 and 85. 



* " An Ancient Sea Beach near Bridlington Quay " : Brit. Assoc. Report for 1888. 



