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Notes on the late Mr George Tate's Specimens of Lower- 

 Carboniferous Entomostraca from Berwickshire and 

 Northumberland. By T. Rupert Jones, Esq., F.R.S., 

 r.G.S., &c. (With Plate II.) 



Paet I. Enumeration of the Sand- specimens, with their Localities. 



In the "Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club," 

 for 1863 (1864), pp. 83-89, there is a ''Description of Entomos- 

 traca from the Mountain-limestone of Berwickshire and North- 

 umberland" by myself, ''With notes on the strata in which they 

 occur, by George Tate, F.G.S., &c." This paper contained 

 descriptions of Estheria striata (Miinster), var. Tateana, Jones (p. 

 85, fig. 1), and Candona (?) Tateana, Jones (p. 87, fig. 2), which 

 had already been treated of in the "Monograph of Fossil 

 Estherise," Palseontographical Society, 1862 ; also another 

 Entomostracon, under the name of Beyrichia Tatei, Jones (p. 88, 

 fig. 3.) 



I have had much doubt as to the real generic place of this 

 last-mentioned species; and I shall again allude to it in the 

 sequel. 



After publishing the description of the Entomostraca above 

 mentioned, the late Mr George Tate, of Alnwick, placed in 

 my hands for examination other specimens from the Lower- 

 Carboniferous Strata of Berwickshire and Northumberland. 

 Various circumstances, however, have prevented my doing jus- 

 tice to them until now ; and, although I regret the delay in 

 fulfilling my late friend's wish that these specimens should be 

 fully examined, yet they have had much of my earnest attention 

 from time to time, and I am pleased to think that my friend Mr 

 J. W. Kirkby has favoured me with his notes on some of them. 



The hand-specimens confided to my care are marked with 

 letters and localities. I will refer to them under these designa- 

 tions ; and, incorporating Mr G. Tate's notes on their geological 

 positions, briefly notice their characters, and add afterwards the 

 descriptions of the new or little-known species occurring in them. 



1. A. Lamherton. Estherian shale, with Estheria striata 

 (Miinster), var. Tateana, Jones, and Candona (?) Tateana, Jones ; 

 see " Monogr. Foss. Estherise," Pal. Soc. 1862, p. 27 and p. 123, 

 where the name of the locality is given as "Lammerton." 



2. B. Alnwick Moor. Black shale, fine-grained, somewhat 

 carbonaceous and micaceous ; low down in the Mountain-lime- 



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