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is a Discina. About a quarter of a mile from the station, two 

 noticeable bands of stone occur about 40 feet above the base of the 

 section. The upper stone is separated from the lower by 4 ft. 6 in. 

 of dark blue clay with many fossils. It is of the same mineral 

 character and appearance as the lower ; but contains corals of the 

 genus Montlivaltia, while corals are no longer present in the lower. 

 The Spiriferince, which play so important a part in the fauna of the 

 upper stone band, as well as the corals and Waldheimia numismalis, 

 are absent from the Yorkshire Lias. The dip of the beds is dis- 

 tinctly to the south, as the stone bands sink below the surface, at 

 a distance of about a third of a mile beyond the spot where they 

 first appear. The true dip is about three-fourths of a degree. 

 Above the stone bands, the shale gradually becomes greyer, rougher, 

 and more lumpy, many of the lumps containing impressions of 

 fucoids. 



The following is a detailed section of the Fenny Compton beds : — 



Ft. in. 



Rough shaly clay 20 



Band of calcareo-argillaceous nodules 2 



Shale ... 10 



Band of nodules with Am. Menleyi, A. Ibex, A. Maugenetii, A. Valdani ... 3 



Shale _ 8 



Band of nodules with Am. Maugenetii, and Fucoids 2 



Shale, with Belemnites 2 



Bough, shelly, argillaceous limestone, with Am. Valdani, and A. Jamesoni, 

 Spiriferina verrucosa, Belemnites clavatus, Lima Hettangiensis, Waldheimia 



numismalis, Rhynchonella riniosa 1 



Shale, with Belemnites 4 6 



Bough, shelly, argillaceous limestones with Am. armatus {young). Pecten 

 priscus, Limea acuticosta, Gryphaa obliquata, Gardinia altenuata, 



Rhynchonella riniosa. Corals 9 



Shale *. 1 8 



Band of nodules 3 



Shale 3 



Band of nodules with Pecten calvus, Terebratula subovoides " 3 



Shale 14 



Band of nodules 2 



Shale 5 



Band of nodules 2 



Shale 3 6 



Band of nodules 2 



Shale 22 



97 



III. — Annalen des k. k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums ; REDIGIRT 

 von Dr. Franz Eitter von Hauer. Band I. No. 1. Jahresbericht 

 fur 1885, von Dr. F. von Hauer. (Wien : 1886.) 

 Annals of the Eoyal Natural History Museum. Edited by 

 Dr. F. von Hauer. Vol. I. No. 1. Annual Eeport for 1885, by 

 Dr. F. von Hauer. (Vienna : 1886.) 



THIS report contains a review of the progress made in the organi- 

 zation of the New Natural History Museum of Vienna under 

 the superintendence of the well-known mineralogist, Dr. von Hauer, 

 the successor of the late Dr. F. von Hochstetter. Until lately, the 



