Miscellaneous. 335 



pp. 208-216, was in type. They appear to be of sufficient interest 

 to be noticed in a supplementary note to tbat catalogue. W. D. 



Chondrostoma, Ag. 



— minutum, Winkler, " Poiss. Foss. d'Oeningen," p. 37, pi. 4, fig. 12. 



Miocene. Oeningen. 

 COBITIS, Ag. 



— Bredai, Winkler, Op. cit. p. 12. ib loc. 

 Esox, Linn. 



— robustus, Winkler, Op. cit. p. 53, pi. 5, figs. 17, 18. ib. loc. 

 Lebias, Ag. 



— crassus, Winkler, Op. cit. p. 40, pi. 4, fig. 13. ib. loc. 



— furcatus, Winkler, Op. cit. p. 44, pi. 4, fig. 15. ib. loc. 

 Rhodeus, Ag. 



— magnui, Winkler, Op. cit. p. 28, pi. 4, fig. Ii. ib. loc. 



Notes on Diplograpsus. — Mr. J. Hopkinson, F.G.S., etc., calls 

 attention, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 

 May, to a specimen of Diplograpsus pristis, showing reproductive 

 capsules. He considers these reproductive organs to represent the 

 gonothec^ of the recent Sertularian Zoophyte ; they are developed 

 almost immediately opposite each other from each side of the periderm, 

 and throughout its whole length. This specimen is of great interest 

 as being the only graptolite with undoubted reproductive organs yet 

 known to have been found in Britain. The presence of these organs 

 throws some light upon the affinities of graptolites. Mr. Hopkinson 

 remarks that it coniirms the evidence, which their internal structure 

 has already furnished, of their near alliance with the Hydroida. He 

 adds, that graptolites, having true gonothecee as well as hydrothec^, 

 are most intimately allied to that order of the Hydroid Coelenterata, 

 known as the Thecaphora or Sertularina. The specimen of Diplo- 

 grapsus pristis was found by the Geological Survey of Scotland, at 

 Leadhills, Lanarkshire, along with a series of fossils which parallel 

 the rocks of this locality with those of Moffat, Dumfriesshire, and 

 with the Llandeilo Flags of Wales. 



MiNEKALOGiCAL NoTiCES. — Prof. N. S. Maskelyne and Dr. Walter 

 Flight contribute some Mineral ogical Notices to the Journal of the 

 Chemical Society for January, 1871. These include : 1. On the 

 Formation of Basic Cupric Sulphates. 2. Analysis of Opal from 

 Waddela Plain, Abyssinia. 3. Notes on Francolite from Cornwall. 

 4. On Epidote and Serpentine from lona. 5, 6. On some specimens 

 of Yivianite and Cronstedtite found in Cornwall, by Mr. Tailing. 

 7. Notes on Pholerite. 



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We regret to record the death of George Tate, Esq., F.G.S., of 

 Alnwick, Hon. Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, who 

 died on Wednesday, the 7th of June, 1871, aged 66 years. George 

 Tate was born in 1805 at Alnwick. More than forty years since 

 he became connected with the Mechanics' Institution of his native 

 town, and for upwards of thirty years he filled the post of Hon. 

 Secretary. During that long period the Institution enjoyed a course 



