1862.] WYATT FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 113 



3. Supjolemental Note on the Plant-bearing Sandstones of Central 

 India. By the Eev. Stephen Hislop. 



(In a Letter to the Assistant-Secretary, dated Nagpur, July 19, 1861.) 



[Prmted in the February No. of the Journal, p. 36, by permission of the 

 Council.] 



January 22, 1862. 



Samuel Sharp, Esq., DaUington Hall, near Northampton, and 

 George Parks Wall, Esq., The Hills, near Sheffield, were elected 

 Fellows. Seilor Casiano di Prado, Madrid, was elected a Foreign 

 Member. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On some farther Discoveries o/ Flint Implements in the Gratel 

 near Bedford. By James Wyatt, Esq., F.G.S. 



(Abstract.) 



Since Mr. Prestwich described the occurrence of flint implements 

 near Bedford (Geol. Soc. Journ. No. 67, p. 366), Mr. Wyatt, Mr. Nail, 

 the Eev. Mr. Hillier, and Mr. BerriU have added seven or eight to 

 the list, from the gravel-pits at Cardington, Harrowden, Biddenham, 

 and Kempston. 



Mr. J. G. Jeffi-eys, F.G.S., having examined Mr. Wyatt's further 

 collections of shells from the gravel-pits at Biddenham and Har- 

 rowden, has determined seventeen other species besides those noticed 

 by Mr. Prestwich ; and among these is Hydrohia marginata (from the 

 Biddenham Pit), which has not been found alive in this country. 

 At Kempston, Mr. Wyatt has examined the sand beneath the gravel 

 (which is destitute of shells), and at 3 feet in the sand (19 feet from 

 the surface) he found Helix, Succinea, Bythinia^ Pupa, Planorbis, &c., 

 with a flint implement. The upper gravel contained several flint 



Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.E.S., F.G.S., having had the shells sub- 

 mitted to him, says, — 



" I have carefully examined and assorted the shells sent to me by 

 Mr. "VVyatt from the Harrowden and Biddenham Pits, and I find 

 that they belong to the following species (distinguished by H. & B. 

 respectively) : — 



H. B. Spha;rium corneum, Linn. (Ci/clas cornea of authors.) 



H. B. Pisidium nitidum, Jenyns. 



H. B. Henslowanum, Jenyns. 



H. , monstr. (P. sinuatum, Normand.) 



B. Bythinia tentaculata, Miiller. 



H. B. Valvata piscinalis, Mull. 



B. cristata, Miill. 



B. Hydrobia marginata. {Paludina marginata, Michaud.) 



B. Succinea putris, Linn. 



H. , dwarf var. resembling 8. oblonga, Drap. 



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