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pleasure, through the kindness of Mr. Wightman, of "Wooler, of-, 

 ascertaining that the fresh-water Unio, Anodon Jukesii, had been 

 found in a stratum of thick sandstone by Mr. James Waldie, of 

 Doddington. A notice of the discovery of this important fossil 

 was read at our Field-Club Meeting at I^ewbiggin-by-the-Sea, 

 and was published in full in the JSTewcastle Journal, August 

 7th, 1877. 



I think I am strictly correct in stating that before the 28th 

 July, 1877, the day on which I first saw this species in J^orth- 

 umberland, no geologist, professional or amateur, had any know- 

 ledge of the existence of this shell in the rocks of N"orthumberland, 

 but on the evening of that day I did both mention that I had ob- 

 tained it and shewed a specimen to a geological friend at Alnwick. 

 After, but not before my paper was announced to be read at the 

 Field-Meeting, it was soon whispered about that this species had 

 been previously found in the Northumberland rocks ; and in the 

 early part of the year 1878 a formal claim was made, not only 

 for priority of discovery of the species, but for acquaintance also 

 with Mr. Wightman's specimens, in a *' Preparation" by Mr. 

 G. A. Lebour, of the Hutton Collection of Fossil Plants. His 

 words are, ''In 1873 the writer (Mr. now Prof. Lebour) found 

 broken fragments of this shell in a bed of grit near the base of 

 the Lower Bernician (or Carboniferous Limestone) series, near 

 Holystone, in Northumberland. In June, 1876, more perfect 

 specimens were obtained by Mr. Ralph {sic) Waldie, of Dodding- 

 ton, an intelligent quarryman, in sandstone occupying somewhat 

 similar position to the above, near Cliilliugham. The writer saw 

 these specimens in the late Mr. Wightman's collection at Woolor 

 a day or two after their discovery. The Holystone specimens 

 are in the Jermyn Street Museum." 



This extract was published rather more than six months after 

 my paper was read and published in tlic Newcastle Journal, 

 lieforc this time no printed record or public announcement luid 

 been made of the Holystone fragments, and we are left somcwluit 

 in the dark as to whether the fragments were £ound by Prof. 

 Lebour himself when he was on the Geological Survey, or by 

 the Survey Collector who visited that (Coquet) district tocolloct 



