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On the Organic Remains of the Warwick Sandstone. 



The author stated that remains of animal forms recently found at 

 Warwick and in the neighbourhood, apparently distinct from those of 

 the new red system of the Continent hitherto published, had been 

 submitted to Prof. Owen, who after minutely examining them had de- 

 scribed them in detail under the names of 



Platygnathus rugosus, certainly of reptile organization. 

 Dolicognathus Lloydii, 1 , , , • i fi Vi 



Dolicognathus varvicensis, j " J 



Crenated teeth of a large saurian, an episternal piece of Phytosaurus, 

 and coprolites of various forms have been found in the same loca- 

 lities. 



On Fossil Fishes from St. George's Collierg near Manchester. 

 By Mr. Binney. 



On the Foot-prints and Ripple-marhs of the New Red Sandstone of 

 Grinshill Hill, Shropshire. By O. Ward, M.D. 



The stratum in which these impressions are found consists of a finely 

 laminated buff-coloured flagstone, from five to ten yards thick, overlaid 

 by two yards of a rubbly corroded red sandstone called " Fee," and un- 

 derlaid by twenty yards of a buff-coloured massive building-stone, 

 which rests upon a red sandstone of unknown thickness at the base of 

 the hill. The ripple-marks are of three kinds : fine ones with sharp 

 edges ; wave-marks, more or less continuous elevations and depressions 

 with smooth rounded surfaces ; and little stream-marks. Foot-prints 

 and rain-drops only found on the ripple- and wave-marks. The rain- 

 marks are not always perpendicular to the general surface, but appear 

 to have struck forcibly against the opposing face of a wave-mark, 

 while they have glanced off from the sloping side ; thus indicating the 

 direction of the wind at the moment of formation. The foot-marks 

 differ from those of the Cheirotherium in having only three toes, armed 

 with long nails, directed forwards, not spreading out, and one hind toe 

 on the same side as the longest fore toe, pointing backwards, and hav- 

 ing a very long claw. No impression of the ball of the foot in this ex- 

 ample ; but in another there are three toes, and a depression for the 

 ball not unlike that of a dog. The foot-prints and ripple-marks were 

 made upon a surface alternately wet and dry, probably on the shore of 

 a sea or tidal river, dry land being near, of which this hill formed the 

 beach. The strata take the slope of the hill northwards, and the 



