Miscellaneous. 
296 Correspondence. 
have seen in the Midland Counties. Thick beds of sand and gravel, 
containing fragments of Shells, occur to the north of Hodnet.— 
Tam, &ce. GEORGE Maw. 
BrntHatt Harr, near Broserry: Oct. 22, 1864. 
DISCOVERY OF THE SKELETON OF LEIJODON ANCEPS IN THE 
CHALK AT NORWICH. 
To the Editors of the GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
Av the base of the high hill enclosed by the boundary of St. 
Leonard’s Priory are some extensive chalk-pits, which, from 
having been described in Cunningham’s Map of Norwich as ‘the 
place where men are customably burnt,’ are now known as 
Lollard’s Pit. From the large quantity of chalk yearly removed 
from this spot, a greater number of the Chalk fossils in the hands of 
the Norwich collectors are obtained from these pits than from others 
in the neighbourhood. In 1858 a few vertebra of Leiodon anceps 
were discovered, and identified by a tooth which was in their imme- 
diate proximity. During the past week a number of bones of the 
same skeleton have been discovered, including about 6 vertebra, a 
hundred fragments of other bones, and 4 teeth, two of which are the 
‘large cultrate two-edged teeth so much in request among collectors, 
and two are of the smaller kind from the inner part of the mouth. 
Tt is much to be regretted that so interesting a specimen is in so ~ 
delicate a state that the bones can only be extracted in fragments ; 
but, however the collector may be disappointed, to the Palzontolo- 
gist this discovery is a ray of hope that at some future time a better 
preserved specimen may be discovered.— Yours truly, 
Norwicu: Oct. 20, 1864, T. G. BAYFIELD. 
MISCEHELIANZEOUVUS. 
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Tuere has lately been found, and added to the nationai collection, 
in the valley-gravel near Vauxhall, south of London, a skull of Sos 
Ffrontosus, Nilsson, nearly entire, and having the characteristic down- 
ward curve of the horn-cores. The frontal, maxillary, and palatine 
bones are nearly perfect, and there are six molar teeth ¢z situ. This 
is the second instance of this species being met with in England. The 
other specimen was from the Bawdsey Bog, near Felixstow, Suffolk, 
and was figured in the ‘ Geologist’ for 1862, pl. 15, p. 441. Both 
the skulls exhibit similar points of difference from the cast of the 
typical Bos frontosus described by Professor Nilsson in K. Vetensk. 
Akad. Ofversigt, 1847, p. 116, and subsequently figured and described 
by him in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. 2nd ser. 1849.—W. D.. 
We notice with regret the death of Mr. A. G. Barn, who was the 
first to show by map and section, as well as by great collections of 
fossils, the geological structure of Cape Colony. He died at Cape 
Town, on the 20th October last, having just landed from England. 
