1858.] BEOWN AND SOWEEBY GROVE FEBEY. 133 



of my Mend Mr. Alex. Murray, of Nethermill, there are other shells 

 of a smaller size, and of a form somewhat resembling a Mya. 



A proof that this is no bed of Phocene clay, and that the fossils 

 have not been drifted, lies in the fact that these shells, especially the 

 smaller ones, occur in groups, — the little Ammonites being congre- 

 gated together, and the Limce huddled in clusters by themselves. 



The occurrence of this relic of the Lias is of considerable interest, 

 as it throws light upon the source of the Liassic fossils, whole and 

 in fragments, which are met with in the Driffc of the valley of the 

 Deveron and of other parts of Aberdeenshire, even towards its eastern 

 coast : it also points to an extension of the sea of the Lias period into 

 quarters not previously imagined ; and, connected with the Chalk- 

 flints and fragments of Greensand found in this county*, it strengthens 

 the supposition that these also are native to the district where we now 

 find them, and not transported from afar, as some have thought. 



I informed Prof. Wicol of the results of my examination of this 

 spot a short time ago; and he, in reply, told me that one of his 

 pupils had brought him some of the fossils of this clay, and that he 

 had seen others in the possession of some individuals at Aberdeen. 

 I am not aware, however, whether any experienced geologist has 

 personally examined the locality. 



I am not aware of the Lias or Oohte having been found in this 

 county previously, nor anywhere else so far east, or perhaps so far 

 inland, in Scotland. 



5. On some Outline-deawings and Photogeaphs of the Skull of the 



Zygomaturus trilobus, Madeay (Nototherium, Owen?). 



By Professor Owen, F.E.S., F.G.S., &c. 



[See further on, p. 168.] 



6. On the Occurrence of some Teetlaey Fossils at Geove Feeey, 

 near Cakterbtjey, Kent. By Joecn Beown, Esq., F.G.S. With 

 Desceiptions of some of the Species ; by G. B. Soweeby, Esq., F.L.S. 



[Plate v.] 



My friend Mr. Prestwich having kindly informed me of an interest- 

 ing fossiliferous deposit at Wear Farmf, in the parish of Chislet, I 

 was endeavouring to find the spot in 1854, when accidentally I 

 heard of a little sand-pit in a garden near Grove Ferry, also in the 

 parish of Chislet (about a mile and a half from Wear Farm), on the 

 left-hand side of a lane leading from the railway-station to the little 

 village of Up Street, nearly a mile from the village of Chislet. Up 

 Street is on the high road from Canterbury to Eamsgate, and six 

 miles from the former. The pit was rather more than halfway up 

 the side of the hiU, and within about thirty feet of its top. The 



* See Quart. Journ. Geol. See. vol. xiii. p. 83. 



t See Mr. Prestwich's paper on these gravels and sands, Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol.xi. p. 110. 



