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Fruits, Crustaceans, Fishes, and Reptiles. In doing this he produced 
a number of nodular stones, and riveted the attention of the audience 
by afiirming that he was enabled to say that one contained the tail 
of a Pachycormus, that a second contained a head of a similar Fish, 
a third a perfect Fish, whilst another held in its stony embrace a 
Cuttle-fish, which, it was prophesied, would contain the cuttle-bone 
and ink-bag. Hammer in hand, Mr. Moore proceeded to open them, 
when, to the great amusement and delight of the Section, the fish he 
had previously indicated was discovered; and the most interesting 
specimen was that which contained the Cuttle-fish, When Mr. 
Moore broke open the stone, not only was the Cuttle-fish visible, but 
the dried inky fluid—the sepia—was discovered, as in a Cuttle-fish 
of the same kind that might be taken out of the sea at the present 
day. There was as much of it as would fill an ordinary ink-bottle. 
He then produced some very perfect specimens of Lchthyosauri found 
in the neighbourhood of Bath, and a specimen of a fish, about the 
size of a salmon of six or seven pounds weight, and so perfect in its 
form and appearance and shape that, but for its colour, as Mr. Moore 
said, it might be handed by mistake to the cook to dress ; and yet 
millions and millions of years must have elapsed since this fish lived 
and moved about in the water. In the Mammaliferous Drift, which 
covers the Bath basin, and passes into the adjoining valleys, the 
remains of extinct Mammalia are abundant, and Mr. Moore exhibited 
many specimens. 
On THE FoRAMINIFERA OF THE Upper AND Mippie Laas. By H. B. Brapy, F.L.S. 
HE author stated that for some time past he had had Mr. Charles 
Moore’s beautiful collection of Lias Foraminifera in his hands to 
work out, and that he had been requested to give some account of 
them to the Section as supplementary to Mr. Moore’s paper on the 
Geology of the District, which had just been read. After enumerat- 
ing the few scattered memoirs which form the scanty literature of 
the subject, a brief outline was given of the great Nodosarian group, 
to which almost all the Rhizopods of the Upper and Middle Lias 
belong. Passing allusion was also made to the so-called ‘ Nummu- 
lite’ of the Lias (dnvolutina), of which a notice appears in our 
present Number. The author further stated that he was at present 
engaged upon the Liassic Foraminifera generally, and exhibited a 
series of drawings of the species occurring in the upper and middle 
portion of the series. 
On THE Rumtic or PenarTH BEps oF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRISTOL AND 
THE SouTH-wmst oF Eneranp. By W. H. Bristow, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., oF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SuRVEY OF GREAT Brirain. 
ie this paper Mr. Bristow stated that, the Directors of the Geo- 
logical Survey being desirous of learning how far the Rhetic 
strata were capable of being represented by means of a separate 
colour on the Survey-map, he visited some of the localities in the 
West of England where the beds in question were best displayed ; 
and, in company with his colleague Mr. Etheridge, he measured 
