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A large slab of Frosterly Marble (polished), 8£ feet by i\ feet, filled with 



Corals. 

 A smaller slab, from same locality, containing Lithostrotion. 

 Rough block of Limestone, used for smelting. 

 A large block of Coal, Brockwell Seam, shewing thickness of seam. 

 A pyramid of Cleveland Ironstone, shewing thickness of stratum. 



Messrs. Pease Sf Co. 



A large piece of Fossilized Wood, from the Lignite beds (Tertiary) of 

 County Antrim. Mr. John Hamilton, Belfast. 



Several fine slabs of Lepidodendron , from the shale above the Shil- 



bottle coal, Shilbottle Colliery. Mr. John Roscamp, Shilbottle. 



Specimen of Paper Coal, from Bonn, Germany. Prof. G. A. Lebour. 



1888. 



Crustacean Tracks in Sandstone, from Haltwhistle Quarries (Upper Yore- 

 dale series. Messrs. A. and A. Summerson,per Mr. C. M. Adamson. 



Twenty specimens of Shark's Teeth and other bones, from the Phosphate 

 beds of S. Carolina, North America. Mrs. Emley, Ellison Place. 



Nautilus Frieslebeni, from the Marl Slate, Midderidge, Co. Durham. 



Mr. Wm. Dinning. 



Anthracite (cone in cone) Coal, from Powell's Duffryn Colliery, So. Wales. 



Mr. John Pattinson. 



A Tooth of Mastodon and one of Elephas, Vertebras, etc., from the Phos- 

 phate beds, Bull River, South Carolina. Mr. Robert Blair, Harton. 



Gold-bearing Quartz, from the Transvaal. 



Mrs. E. Bruce, Grahain's Town, Cape Colony, per Rev. Dr. Bruce. 



Four pieces of Cone in cone, from boulder or drift- clay, site of Fleming's 

 Hospital, Moor Edge. Mr. Philip Hobbs. 



Iron Pyrites ? (massive), said to be from the Whin Dyke, at Knowe's Gate, 

 Wansbeck Line. Mr. John Brown, Kenton Bank Foot. 



Fossil Starfish, from Eocene Limestone, Egypt. Mr. Robt. Blair, Harton. 



Scales of Megalichthys Hibberti, from roof of Kilburn Seam, Denby Colliery, 

 near Derby. 



Teeth and part of Jaw of Ctenodus, from the Half-yard Ironstone, Clanway 

 Colliery, near Tunstall, Staffordshire. 



Portion of Spine of Gyracanthus, from the Black Rake Ironstone, near the 

 Nutbrook Canal, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. 



Mr. G. E. Greenwell, Duffield, near Derby. 



Marsupites and Echini, from the Chalk at Aldershot, and two Bivalves, 

 from a well in London Clay Mr. Thos. Henderson, Scotswood. 



Small collection of Inferior Oolite Fossils, from the Cordilleras, 18,000 feet 

 above sea level, 60 miles from Corral Quimado ; and Shells and Imple- 

 ment, from raised beach at Santo Thomas, at Arragon, Chili. 



Mr. W. C. Tripler, Santiago, per Dr. H. S. Pattinson. 



