1859.] EGEKTON — OLD RED FISHES. 11!.) 



Forest-marble, and Combrash. Unless, by the further progress of 

 research into the Lincolnshire oolites, some error be found in this 

 statement of their conformity on the one hand to the oolite north of 

 the Humber, and on the other to the oolite of the Cherwell valley, 

 it will be difficult to disturb the arrangement long since, though 

 not without hesitation*, proposed, which assigns the calcareous 

 shelly beds of Gristhorpe on the Yorkshire coast to the Great Oolite 

 group, notwithstanding the fact that they contain some fossils which 

 in the south of England are prevalent in the Inferior Oolite t, with 

 many the distribution of which is not there limited to one member 

 of the Bath Oolite series. 



Possibly, in the course of this summer, it may be in my power to 

 complete some observations in the northern parts of Lincolnshire 

 and the southern parts of Yorkshire, and thus contribute to clear 

 away the obscurity which still hangs over the sections of these dis- 

 tricts. When this is carefully accomplished, we shall be able to judge 

 whether, in the earliest classification of the Cave Oolite, in 1826, by 

 Mr. W. Harcourt and myself J, and in the latest notice by Mr. Nor- 

 wood§ and Dr. Wright ||, this rock, on the evidence of the fossils only, 

 was rightly referred to the Inferior Oolite, or whether, on more 

 general considerations, I was justified in deviating from my first 

 opinion and giving it a higher place in the series. 



Mat 18, 1859. 



Richard Meeson, Esq., Grays, Essex ; Graham Stuart, Esq., Brind- 

 cliffe, Sheffield ; and Colonel Stepney Cowell Stepney, St. George's 

 Place, Hyde Park, were elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read : 



1. Pai.iciitiiyouh;ic Notes. 



By Sir Pump Grey Eoeexon, Bart.. M.l'.. K.U.S.. l'.C.S.. &e. 



No. 12. — Remarks on the NOMENCLATURE of thi Dzvom w 1'i-in 8. 



The •■ i >ld Red Sandstone" has recently occupied bo much the atten- 

 tion of some of our most talented geological observers, that a kindred 

 interest has been attracted to the examination of its fauna and flora. 

 Of the former the Ichthyologies] branch is of paramount importance, 



iiia-much as the va.st majority of the fossil remains hitherto dis- 

 covered in this formation appertain to that division of the Animal 

 Kingdom. It is therefore much to 1><- regretted that the aid which 



* Gcol. Yorkshire, toL i. edition I. 1829, p. 160; edition 2, 1836, p. 131. 

 t To tho list of those previously known, Dr. Wright has added 

 Humphreyrianus, of which a specimen ia in Day own cabinet, found bj meal 



Gristhorpe in [855. 



I buuusof Philosophy, 1826 § Brit Assoc. Beporte for 1858 



I La communication to Geo! 8oc< 1858 



