29C Correspondence — Rev, TF. 8, Symonds, 



FISH REMAINS IN THE LOWER DEVONIAN OF SOUTH DEVON 

 AND CORNWALL. 



Sir, — I have read with much interest the comnmnication of the 

 Eev. E. Wyatt-Edgell in the Geological Magazine on a Pteras- 

 pidian plate found by his son the late Lieut. Wyatt-Edgell, at Mud- 

 stone Bay, South Devon. 



As I was the person who detected the Pteraspidian plates in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Pengelly, at Torquay, and sent them by my friend 

 Mr. Leonard Lyell, for examination by Prof, Huxley, perhaps I may 

 be allowed to say that several years ago the icthyic character of these 

 fossils was detected by Mr. Pengelly, who only laid the specimens 

 aside, as supposed sponges, on the authority of Prof. McCoy. I beg 

 leave, Sir, therefore to suggest that the Devonian Pteraspis dis- 

 covered years ago by Mr. Pengelly be named after that gentleman, 

 who has done so much for Devonian geology, and who but for 

 McCoy's mistake would have long ago made known the existence of 

 a Lower Old Eed fish in the Lower Devonian seas. 



W. S. Symonds. 

 Pendock Rectory, Tewkesbury, 

 12 May, 1868. 



Note. — Much as one would wish to see the new Pteraspidian fish- 

 plate from Devon named after Mr. Pengelly, the discoverer, j^et, 

 according to the laws of nomenclature, we are bound to retain for it 

 the older of the two names by which it is already known. It must, 

 we fear, remain as Pteraspis (or ScapJiaspis) Cornubicus, McCoy, sp. 

 (See Geol. Mag. for May, p. 248). I believe, more than twenty 

 years ago, that veteran geologist, Mr. Peach, announced the dis- 

 covery of fish-remains in Cornwall, in the Trans. Eoyal Geological 

 Society of Cornwall, being the identical fossil afterwards called a 

 Sponge (steganodictyum) by McCoy, and now once more pronounced 

 a Fish by Prof. Huxley. — Edit. 



Eemains of the Gigantic Irish Deer Cervus megaceros. — Our 

 correspondent, Mr. G. Henry Kinahan, M.E.I. A., etc., of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Ireland, kindly writes to informs us that he has 

 just heard from Mr. William Heneby (carpenter), Thomond Gate, 

 Limerick, who has obtained a skeleton of the great Irish deer 

 (Cervus megaceros), of which he is desirous to dispose to some 

 Museum. 



Mr. Kinahan has recommended this collector to various persons, 

 and he always appears to have given satisfaction. A good skeleton 

 of Cervus megaceros is a prize not to be lost sight of. — Edit. 



