MISCELLANEA. I7l 



On taking them to the Museum, where they are deposited, 

 they were found to be Testacella Haliotoidea, Draparnaud. 



Some Morella cherry trees were got from Crewkerne, Somerset, 

 in the spring of 1876, with which they might have come. 



I am told by the Eev. A. M. [N'orman that he has not heard 

 of them in the I^orth of England before. — R. Y. Green ^ Janumyy 

 1877. 



Note on the Discovery in 1836-7 of a Fossil Fish (Acrolepis 

 Kirhhyi, n. s.) in the Upper Division of the Magnesian Limestone at 

 Marsden. — Last year, 1876, I had an opportunity of examining at 

 "Whitby a fossil fish which was found in Marsden Eay so long ago 

 as 1836-7 by Miss Green, of South Shields. It was presented by 

 Miss Green to Dr. Young of Whitby, and eventually deposited in 

 the Museum of that town. This specimen is interesting as being 

 one of the earliest ichthyolites found in our immediate locality, 

 and its occurrence in the lowest bed of the Upper Division of 

 the Magnesian Limestone is equally noteworthy. Those who 

 visited Marsden Bay before Peter Allan excavated his remark- 

 able grotto, and became a permanent resident at the Eock, know 

 how different the place was at that time. The north part of the 

 Bay was exceedingly rocky, so much so, that at low water scarcely 

 more than a narrow margin of sand was to be seen close up to 

 the cliff, the rest being covered with rough rocks at low tide. 

 Keels came round from the Tyne, and workmen were employed 

 to wedge up the thick beds of marly limestone and load the 

 keels during low tide, and at high water the load thus obtained 

 was conveyed to the Jarrow Chemical Works to be used in 

 the manufacture of Epsom Salts. In course of a few years this 

 supply of limestone became exhausted, and the north portion of 

 the Bay assumed more of its present appearance, and one source 

 of profit was closed to the industrious Peter who had in the 

 meantime excavated for himself a home in the grotto which will 

 ever be associated with his name, and had moreover made the 

 Bay a place desirable and delightful to picnic parties from Shields, 

 Newcastle, and Sunderland. Many traces of these soft marly 



