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appeared still to leave the true nature of these organisms in doubt. 

 He remarked on the wide geological range of such fossils, and 

 asked the Author whether he had ever found them in the Coal- 

 Measures in clusters like those described from the Wealden forma- 

 tion of the Continent. If they were the eggs of fishes, they must 

 belong either to Elasmobranchs or to Chimaeroids, of which traces 

 were almost completely absent from the rocks in which Palceoceyris 

 and allied fossils were found. 



Dr. Martin Schmidt remarked on the analogy between the 

 fruits of a certain species of mangrove, common in the Dutch East 

 Indies, and the fossils described. 



The President (Prof. W. W. Watts) pointed out that the apparent 

 variation in size in the fossils exhibited was not in favour of the 

 origin of Palceoceyris as an egg-capsule. 



The Author, after thanking the Fellows for their kind reception 

 of his paper, remarked, with reference to the observations of 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, that the presence of plant-remains in the 

 same nodule with the Shipley specimen appeared to him purely 

 accidental, as every nodule from that claypit contained plant- 

 remains. He could not quite endorse Dr. Gibson's contention that 

 the clays from which these specimens came might have been 

 marine, as there was no evidence of an associated marine fauna. 

 He was very interested in Dr. Schmidt's observation concerning 

 the fruit of the Bakao. He had noticed that these organisms had 

 been found occurring in clusters, but the nature of the substance 

 to which they were attached could not in any case be made out. 



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