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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  Stanley 
  A. 
  Pelly, 
  B.A., 
  Thorncliffe, 
  Saltford, 
  near 
  Bristol, 
  were 
  

   elected 
  Fellows 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  communications 
  were 
  read 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Fossil 
  Fish-remains 
  from 
  the 
  Armagh 
  Limestone 
  in 
  

   the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Enniskillen." 
  By 
  James 
  W. 
  Davis, 
  

   Esq., 
  F.G.S., 
  F.L.S. 
  

  

  [Abstract 
  * 
  ] 
  

  

  The 
  author 
  described 
  in 
  this 
  paper 
  a 
  large 
  collection 
  of 
  fossil 
  fish- 
  

   remains 
  preserved 
  at 
  Florence 
  Court, 
  Enniskillen, 
  but 
  soon 
  to 
  

   be 
  removed 
  to 
  the 
  new 
  Natural 
  History 
  Museum 
  in 
  the 
  Cromwell 
  

   Boad. 
  The 
  collection 
  comprises, 
  besides 
  specimens 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  

   Earl 
  of 
  Enniskillen 
  from 
  the 
  Carboniferous 
  Limestone 
  of 
  Armagh, 
  a 
  

   large 
  series 
  acquired 
  from 
  tho 
  famous 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Captain 
  

   Jones, 
  M.P. 
  Several 
  genera 
  and 
  species 
  were 
  described 
  by 
  Prof. 
  

   Agassiz 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  Recherches 
  sur 
  les 
  Poissons 
  Fossiles 
  ' 
  (1833-43), 
  

   and 
  again 
  referred 
  to 
  by 
  General 
  J. 
  E. 
  Portlock, 
  F.R.S., 
  in 
  his 
  

   1 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Geology 
  of 
  Londonderry 
  and 
  parts 
  of 
  Tyrone 
  and 
  

   Fermanagh' 
  (1843). 
  

  

  In 
  1854 
  Prof. 
  H'Coy 
  described 
  many 
  new 
  genera 
  and 
  species 
  in 
  

   his 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  ' 
  British 
  Palteozoic 
  llocks 
  and 
  Fossils,' 
  principally 
  

   derived 
  from 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  portion 
  of 
  Capt. 
  Jones's 
  collection 
  

   deposited 
  in 
  the 
  Cambridge 
  Museum. 
  Prof. 
  Agassiz 
  paid 
  a 
  visit 
  to 
  

   Florence 
  Court 
  in 
  1858, 
  and 
  appended 
  names 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  fossil 
  

   teeth 
  in 
  I^ord 
  Enniskillen's 
  cabinets, 
  intending 
  to 
  describe 
  and 
  figure 
  

   the 
  new 
  forms, 
  and 
  to 
  revise 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  his 
  former 
  work. 
  His 
  

   death 
  prevented 
  this 
  intention 
  from 
  being 
  carried 
  into 
  effect. 
  As 
  

   far 
  as 
  possible 
  the 
  determinations 
  of 
  Prof. 
  Agassiz 
  have 
  been 
  adhered 
  

   to 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  paper. 
  

  

  The 
  detached 
  and 
  isolated 
  condition 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  remains 
  are 
  

   found 
  renders 
  any 
  appreciation 
  of 
  the 
  relationship 
  of 
  the 
  teeth 
  and 
  

   spines, 
  or 
  even 
  of 
  the 
  teeth 
  only, 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  extremely 
  uncertain 
  

   and 
  difficult. 
  Some 
  speculations 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  probable 
  organization 
  and 
  

   characteristics 
  of 
  the 
  Carboniferous 
  fishes 
  which 
  they 
  represent, 
  

   evolved 
  during 
  a 
  long 
  consideration 
  of 
  the 
  specimens, 
  have 
  therefore 
  

   been 
  postponed 
  to 
  a 
  future 
  opportunity. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  is 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  and 
  species 
  described 
  in 
  the 
  

   paper 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Ctenacanihus 
  plicatilis, 
  G. 
  dubius, 
  C. 
  Icevis, 
  G. 
  pustulatus, 
  G. 
  tubercu- 
  

   latum, 
  Gompsacanthuscarinatus, 
  Gosmacanthusmarginatus, 
  C.carinatus, 
  

   Lispacanthus 
  retrogradus, 
  Gladacanthus 
  paradoxus, 
  G. 
  major, 
  Gna- 
  

   thacanthus 
  triangularis, 
  Gladodus 
  polyodon, 
  G. 
  curvus, 
  G. 
  destructor, 
  

   Garcharopsis 
  Colei, 
  Gopodus 
  cornutus, 
  G. 
  furcatus, 
  G. 
  spatulatus, 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  paper 
  has 
  been 
  withdrawn 
  by 
  the 
  Author 
  for 
  publication 
  elsewhere. 
  

  

  