48 OhUiiary—N. T. Wether ell, 3LE.C.8., F.G.S. 



BOS PEIMIGENITIS YE ALGEEIA. 



Sir, — I have just received information from ray friend M. Durando 

 of Algiers, of the discovery of the entire head with enormous horn- 

 cores of a fossil ox at Djelfa, on the Hautes Plateaux of Algeria, sup- 

 posed to be Bos jprimigenius (?). 



The skull in the Museum at Algiers, discovered some years ago at 

 Bab-Azzoun. near Algiers, has, I believe, been determined SisBubalus 

 antiquus. The skull from Djelfa has also been placed in the 

 Museum, and should be examined by any palseontologist visiting 

 Algiers, with a view to the correct determination of the species. 



Djelfa is a fortress about 150 miles south of Algiers, situated on 

 the military road connecting Algiers with L'Aghouat, at a height of 

 2600 feet. G. Maw. 



Eenthall Hall, near Broseley. 



NATHANIEL T. WETHERELL, M.R.C.S., F.G.S. 



The closing year has taken with it another member of the old 

 '^London Clay Club," Mr. N. T. Wetherell, who died at his residence 

 at Highgate on the 22nd December, 1875, aged 75 years. Like his 

 friend F. E. Edwards, whose death we noticed last November, Mr. 

 Wetherell devoted his attention specially to the study of the fossils 

 of the London Clay (particularly those from localities on the north of 

 London) : but he had besides given much time to the careful collec- 

 tion of the fossils from the Glacial Drift-deposits of Einchley and 

 Muswell Hill. The latter collection is preserved in the Museum of 

 Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, whilst the greater portion of his very 

 extensive London Clay Collection has been secured for the Brit. Mus. 



The following is a list of Mr. Wetherell's chief scientific papers : — 



1. Observations on tlie London Clay of Highgate Archway, Proc. Geol. Soc. 



Lond., vol. i. June 19, 1822, p. 403. 



2. On an Ophiura found at Child's Hill, N.W. of Hampstead, op. cit., p. 417. 



Jan. 9, 1833. 



3. Observations on a Well dug at the Lower Heath on the South Side of Hampstead. 



(June, 1834.) Trans. Geol. Soc, vol. v. 1840, p. 131. 



4. A Notice of some Organic Remains recently discovered in the London Clay, 



Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond., vol. iii. p. 140. 



5. On the Occurrence of Graphularia Wetherellii, in Nodules fi'om the London 



Clay and the Crag, 1859, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xv. p. 30. 



6. On the Structure of some of the Siliceous Nodules of the Chalk, 1859, op. cit., 



vol. XV. p. 193. 



Besides the above, Mr. Wetherell communicated numerous notes 

 on geological and palssontological subjects to '' Loudon's Magazine 

 of Natural History," the "Annals," the " Geologist," the " Geological 

 Magazine," and other scientific journals. He paid much attention 

 to the investigation of ''the Banded Structure seen in Flints." (See 

 an article by Dr. S. P. Woodward, Geol. Mag. 1864, Yol. I. p. 145, 

 PL VII. and VIII.) 



Mr. Wetherell was one of the earliest Fellows of the Geological 

 Society of London, and although of late years he ceased to attend its 

 meetings, he continued to the last devotedly attached to geological 

 science, which through his long life he earnestly endeavoured to 

 promote. Both in his profession as a medical man, and also among 

 his scientific friends, he was warmly esteemed. W. 



