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him to the Geological Society. This specimen served for an illustration in the 

 'Geol. Transact.' (2nd ser., vol. v, pi. 28, fig. 4) to the memoir by Strickland and 

 Murehison on the New Red Sandstone. There are numerous Estheria on a plane of 

 bedding, both large and small; one of the largest is here figured (tig. 5). 



Other specimens of sandstone slabs bearing Esther ia minuta, associated with greenish 

 shale, collected by the Rev. P. B. Brodic, E.G.S., at Shrewley and Rowington, are in the 

 Museum of the Geological Society, in the British Museum, and in the Museum of 

 Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. 



2. Compact grey shale, from Pendock, Worcestershire, containing scattered specimens 

 of Estheria minuta, often in a most perfect state of preservation. The shell is of a 

 delicate honey colour. These have been collected and liberally communicated by the 

 Rev. W. S. Symonds, E.G.S. The specimen figured (PI. II, fig. 1) belongs to Pro- 

 fessor Tennant, F.G.S. 



3. Mr. James Plant, of Leicester, has confided to me some greenish-grey laminated 

 sandstone, with a very few scattered casts of Estheria minuta, retaining some of the 

 carapace, from near Leicester. Sec pnge 63. 



4. Grey fine-grained sandstone, from Somerton, Somersetshire, bearing, in one 

 specimen, numerous convex casts of Estheria minuta, both of large size (fig. 4), and 

 small, with traces of the shell remaining ; in another specimen crowded and crushed 

 carapaces of Estheria, and also convex casts with scarcely any shell, all of small size. 

 In both cases the Estheria lie on the plane of bedding. Mr. Charles Moore, F.G.S., 

 has discovered and lent these interesting specimens. 



5. Other English localities for Estheria minuta (as I learn by specimens in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street) are — 



Hill End, between Eastington and Castle Morton, east of the southern part of the Malverns 

 (See 'Mem. Geol. Surv.,' ii, I, p. 120, &c, and map). Coarse greenish-grey sandstone. 

 Collected by Professor Phillips. 



Railway-cutting, at High House, near Warwick. Laminated sandstone, in green shale. Mr. 

 Gibbs. 



Newent, Gloucestershire. Laminated sandstone, in green shale. Mr. Gibbs. 



Needwood Forest. Whitish micaceous sandstone, 1 weathering ferruginous. Mr. Howell. 



Moieton-Bagot. 2 Grey sandstone. Mr. J. \V. Kirshaw. 



Shelsley, Worcestershire. Green shale. 



I. Warwickshire. — In a memoir, published in 1840 (' Trans. Geolog. Soc.,' 2nd 

 ser., vol. v, part 2), Messrs. Strickland and Murehison described the New Red Sand- 

 stone series of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire, as consisting of — 



1 The specimens arc obscure casts here ; and there is some doubt as to whether this sandstone be- 

 longs to the TriasBlc or the Rha:tic scries. 



- " North of the fault," Mr. Kirshaw tells me. 



