576 Correspondence — Sir Philip Egerton — Mr. R. Etheridge. 



that there are no upper slates. But this obviously follows if the 

 conformability of the Culm-measures and the Limestones be admitted, 

 as the Culm- measures at Ogwell and the Berry Park Slates at 

 Loventor cannot both be conformable on the Great Devon Lime- 

 stone ; and this is tantamount to allowing that the slates are beneath. 



Dr. Holl says truly that the organic remains of the Upper Slates 

 of Berry immediately above the Limestones do not appear to differ 

 from those beneath them. This is so far in favour of their being 

 one and the same thing. 



Let me close, however, with saying that until within the last 

 month, I held, in spite of many perplexities, the same views with 

 Dr. Holl, but since the appearance of Mr. Woodward's book, I quite 

 think that he has found the clue to unravel the country. 



Daetington Hall, October Zlst, 1876. , A. ChamperNOWNB. 



SABPACTIEA v. HAItPACTES. 

 Sib,, — Finding that the generic term Harpactes has been appro- 

 priated by the Ornithologists, I beg leave to substitute Harpacth-a 

 for the fossil fish described in the October Number of this Magazine 

 (p. 441). Philip Grey Egerton. 



FTJETHER LOCALITIES FOR ACANTEOSFONGIA SMITHII, YOUNG, 

 , AND ESTEERIA BAWSONI, JONES. 



Sir, — Will you allow me to give one or two further localities for 

 this interesting Carboniferous fossil, described by Mr. J. Young 

 at the late meeting of the British Association in Glasgow. A number 

 of the spicules of Acantliospongia Smitliii (see Armstrong, Young, and 

 Eobertson's Cat. W. Scottish Fossils, 1876, p. 38) have been pre- 

 sented to the Survey Collection by Mr. Smith, who first discovered 

 the fossil, through Mr. J. Bennie, from the typical locality, Cunning- 

 hame Bealand, near Dairy, Ayrshire. With the aid of these specimens 

 I am enabled to state that it occurs in the No. 1 Limestone of the 

 Calderwood Series (Lower Carboniferous Limestone Group) at East 

 Drumloch Quarry, near East Kilbride, Lanarkshire; again in lime- 

 stone in the railway cutting at Waterland, Lugton Inn, near Dunlop, 

 Ayrshire ; and lastly in the east of Scotland at one of the Currielee 

 Quarries, Tyne Water, near Borthwick, Edinburghshire. 



When collecting in the neighbourhood of Dunbar within the last 

 month, Mr. J. Bennie hit upon a bed of shale in the Bed Sandstone, 

 or Lower Group of the Calciferous Sandstone Series, at the base of 

 the Carboniferous system in the East of Scotland, containing peculiar 

 plant remains, a number of modioliform bivalves, and an Estheria, 

 which Prof. T. Eupert Jones, F.R S., tells me is scarcely, if at all, 

 to be distinguished from the Nova-Scotian Lower Carboniferous form 

 E. Dawsoni, Jones. R. Etheridge, Jun. 



Edinburgh. 



Mr. J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S., formerly of Oxford, England, who 

 for thirteen years has held the post of Scientific Curator and 

 Secretary to the Natural History Society of Montreal, has been 

 recently appointed Pala2ontologist to the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, vacant by the death of Mr. E. Billings, F.G.S. 



