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tudinal row, and there are no indications that the hexagonal plates 

 of the rest of the surface reached over the apical portion. If this 

 determination is correct, there would be free communication with 

 the exterior at the summit of the organism. 



III. — Field Notes from the Shan Hills (Upper Burma), By 

 Fritz Noetling, Ph.D. Eecord Geol. Surv, India, vol. xxiii, 

 part ii. pp. 78, 79, Calcutta, May, 1890. 



THIS records the interesting occurrence of Limestones curiously 

 resembling the EcMnosphcerifen-Tcalk of the Baltic provinces 

 and Sweden. The fossils collected are fragments of an Orthoceras, 

 belonging to the group of the Eegulares ; Crinoid stems of two 

 different types ; and an Echinosphcsra of very large size. The 

 latter is said by the author to be a new species, and is named by 

 him E. Kingi; since, however, no diagnosis, or even description, is 

 given, we are unable to accept this species, and we trust that the 

 learned Director of the Indian Survey will not in future permit his 

 name to be thus taken in vain. If this EcMnosplicera is really a new 

 species, we fail to see how it bears out the author's contention that 

 the red limestone of Upper Burmah is on " the exact horizon " of 

 the Baltic Ecliinosphmriten-kalh, and that an arm of the sea in which 

 that was deposited must have stretched right down to south-eastern 

 Asia. The genus Echinosphcera is, for the rest, by no means confined 

 to a single horizon in the Ordovician. F. A. B. 



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The Chapelhall "Shell-Bed," near Airdrie.^ By Dugald 

 Bell, F.G.S. 



THE Chapelhall Shell-bed, near Airdrie, had often been adduced 

 as proving a submergence of at least 526 feet, Mr. Bell 

 reminded the members of what he had shown on a previous 

 occasion — that the " shelly gravel " on Moel Tryfaen in Wales 

 could not be accepted as a proof of submergence, there being 

 every evidence that it is not really in place, or as laid down 

 by the sea. There was a great difference between a submergence 

 of 1360 feet and one of 526 feet, and we might more readily 

 believe in the latter than in the former ; but he thought the 

 more it was considered the more doubtful and inconclusive did even 

 the smaller submergence, as depending on this Chapelhall instance, 

 appear. He described the locality, and pointed out how little was 

 really tnown of the " deposit " in question. It was reported by 

 Mr. James Eussell, a mining engineer then living in the locality, as 

 having been found while digging a well near the summit of one of 

 the high ridges of Boulder-clay that abound in the neighbourhood. 

 It was described by him as a bed of " reddish brick clay " containing 

 marine shells, intercalated in the " tile " or Boulder-clay, which had 

 a great thickness both above and below it. 

 I ^ Eeport of a paper read before the Geological Society of Glasgow. 



