20 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
purposes of satiation saa this sip action will doubtless be welcomed 
local geologists. We “g th is list i i 
by man al g ho t this list is on first instalment, for 
there certai 0 bea I: umber of groups of fossils hich no one 
is prepared to po: uthority. "We should have thought that some one might 
ve been fo ee poy ee ilabites, the belemnites, or the Palzeozoic brachiopods. 
Obviously, if anyone wishes to take up the st udy of Lean, eepecie division of 
eT et he need not be deterred by the lack of an 
er of course there are certain conditions be aan ce pe tly laid down. 
ner? specimen sent to a specialist must be labelled with age a locality and 
hori The sender must give satisfactory assurance that he desires the 
Piette for r purposes él publication, and not merely for the pats of having 
his collection named. Full acknowledgment of the assistance rendere by the 
s ecislist published. jalist reserves the right of himself 
publishing, in any way that seems to him best, any new species or other Points 
of biological interest afforded by the material submitted to him. 
Bedi to sia institutio 
e ma out, however, serious omissions in these conditions, and we think 
it ought to be made clear that i in return for the full acknowledgment to be given 
of the specialist i 
a a fall Sckaoeldion: to the sender o 
occasion of publishing notes on the specimens, and also shige the riot ot prtority? ia 
poblicatiin | is also to be reserved to the sender. 
NOTE—GEOLOG xs 
Lincolnshire Boulder C Report.—I omitted to mention in my 
report on Tincinshire Boulders, tinea va in the November ‘ Naturalist,’ pp. 
et sequ., that those numbered 3 to 41 
— ae ‘of the H Hull faslosicgs Society to Louth in June 1896.—W. TucKWELL, 
altham, Grimsby, Nov. 1896. 
NM OTE—PALHONT =~ TOLOGY. 
Middle Lias Reptile from Lincoln.—In the cou of some investigations 
which I have lately been conducting on the ‘Lincoinshite Storeng Lias, I have 
been struck with the rarity with which reptilian remains r in rocks of this 
age, both in this and in the adjoining counties. ‘Now i 
in his ‘ Yor: orkshire Lias,’ nor by any members of the 
shire and Yorkshire Middle Lias fo: forms. |. COOKE, Eiveotn, Dee, t 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
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