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near the base of the formation. The formation of a well for the 
Queenborough Cement Company in 1885 was the means of furnish- 
ing a laminated clay with glittering patches of Diatoms from a depth 
of 225 feet. In this were also found fairly good pyritized specimens 
of Radiolaria, some of which were submitted to Prof. Ernst Hackel, 
who found a large number of fragments of Tertiary Radiolaria, but 
few well-preserved specimens appertaining to the families Sphe- 
roidea, Discoidea, and Cyrtoidea, and apparently identical with 
those described from the Tertiary Tripoli beds of Grotte. No new 
species occurred among the recognized forms. 
Sketches made by Mr. A. L. Hammond were also submitted to 
Prof. Hackel, who stated that these forms were not identical with 
any known species, recent or fossil. 
The author described the following new species :—Oornutella 
Hammondi, Spongodiscus asper, and Monosphera toliapica. — 
The specimens were preserved in iron-pyrites. 
Some Tetractinellid sponge-spicules from the washings were 
recognized by Prof. Sollas. 
3. “ Description of a New Species of Clupea (C. vectensis) from 
Oligocene Strata in the Isle of Wight.” By E. T. Newton, Hsq., 
F.G.S. : 
A number of small fishes found by Mr. G. W. Colenutt, of Ryde, 
during his investigations of the Oligocene strata of the Isle of Wight, 
in beds belonging to the “Osborne Series,” were described as be- 
longing to a new species of Clupea. The specimens vary in length 
from 20 to nearly 60 millim. In all of them the head is much 
broken ; but the rest of the body is beautifully preserved, showing 
most distinctly the vertebral column, ribs, fins, tail, and ventral 
spines. The single dorsal fin has its front rays about midway 
between the tip of the snout and the base of the tail, the ventral 
fins being immediately under the front of the dorsal and about mid- 
way between the pectoral and anal fins. The anal fin commences 
about halfway between the ventral fins and the base of the tail, 
occupying about two-thirds of that distance, and the tail is deeply 
forked. The scales are thin and in most cases much broken; while 
the ventral region of the body is armed with a row of strong spines. 
The spinal column contains about 40 vertebra, of which 14 or 15 
are caudal. 'The bones of the head are mostly broken, but those of 
which the outline can be traced agree with the corresponding parts 
of the Sprat. 
These fishes are referred to the genus Clupea; but although very 
closely allied to the Common Herring and Sprat, the relative 
positions of the dorsal and ventral fins, as well as the number of 
vertebra, prevent their being placed in any known species, either 
recent or fossil, and they are therefore regarded as a new form and 
named Clupea vectensis. 
I1I.—December 5, 1888. —W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the Chair. The following communications were read :— 
1. “Notes on two Traverses of the Crystalline Rocks of the Alps.” 
By Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S8. 
