Geological Society of London. 383 



Turhinoseris, Duncan, is identical with Leptophyllia, of Eeuss, and 

 as the specific name de FromenteJi is preoccupied in the latter genus, 

 he proposed to substitute the name Leptophyllia anglica, Tomes, for 

 Turhinoseris de Fromenteli, Duncan. A new species, probably of 

 Smilotrochus, from the Gault of Folkestone, and a new Isastrcea from 

 Atherfield, were described, and notes added on the occurrence in 

 British localities of Barysmilia tuberosa, Reuss, B. Cordieri, M.-Edw. 

 and Haime, Fleurosmilia neocomiensis, E. de From., of a small form 

 of Aslrocoenia, and of Isastrcea Heussiana, M.-Edw. and Haime 

 (=.Ulop]ujllia crispa, Eeuss.). The occurrence of Beaumontia 

 Egertoni, derived from the Carboniferous Limestone, in the Upper 

 Greensand of Cambridge, was reported. 



5. " Correlations of the Curiosity-Shop Beds, Canterbury, New 

 Zealand." By Capt. F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. 



The " Curiosity Shop " is a locality on the River Eakaia in the 

 Canterbury Plains, and has been thus named on account of the 

 numerous fossils found in some calcareous sandstones cut through 

 by the river. The section exposed consists of — 1. Eiver-gravels. 

 2. Loose grey quartz sands. 3. Soft calcareous sandstone with glau- 

 conite, passing downwards into tufaceous clay. 4. Calcareous sand- 

 stone without glauconite. 5. Loose grey or yellowish brown sands. 

 By McKay, of the Geological Survey, No. 2 had been referred 

 to the Pareora series (Miocene?), No. 3 to the Upper Eocene series, 

 and Nos. 4 and 6 to the Cretaceo-Tertiary series. The author, who 

 was inclined to class all these beds in a single series, pointed out 

 that the only difference between the fossils found in Nos. 3 and 4, 

 the most important fossiliferous beds, consisted in the presence of a 

 greater number of forms in No. 3, all found in No. 4 being identical 

 with those in the overlying bed. He then gave a complete list of 

 the species of Vertebrata, Mollusca, Brachiopoda, Echinodermata, 

 Bryozoa and Coelenterata, from the locality, 48 in all, and compared 

 them with those from the Weka-pass stone, 26 in number, and the 

 Ototara fossils from Oamaru, to show that a large proportion were 

 identical. He gave reasons for not agreeing with the views of Dr. 

 Hector and Mr. McKay, who held that unconformity exists between 

 the beds referred by them at the Curiosity Shop, in the Weka-pass 

 district, and north of Otago, to the Upper Eocene and Cretaceo- 

 Tertiary series respectively, and showed both from pala3ontological 

 and stratigraphical data that all these rocks must be included in one 

 system, the Oamaru system of Dr. von Haast and himself. 



6. "On the Fossil Flora of Sagor in Carniola." By Constantin 

 Baron von Ettingshausen, F.CG.S. 



The author in this paper gave the principal results of his examina- 

 tion of the fossil flora of Sagor, consisting of 170 genera and 387 

 species, of which a list was appended. The plants were obtained 

 from 14 different localities, some of the most important species from 

 each of which were mentioned ; in one of these localities the flora 

 underlying the brown coal of the district belonged to the uppermost 

 Eocene, whilst the remaining stations were assigned to the lowest 

 stage of the Miocene system. The great diversity of the fossil 

 plants showed that the Tertiary flora of this and other localities 



