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Prof. Dr. Oscar Fraas, in his work, * Aus dem Orient/ 1878, 

 pt. ii. (Stuttgart), figures and describes 28 species of inverfcebrata, 

 echinodermata, mollusca, Crustacea, etc., and 1 fish (Gyrodus) from 

 the Cretaceous of Syria. He figures one dibranchiate cephalopod 

 (Geoteuthis libanoticus) and 1 ammonite. 



Dr. Fraas mentions that he saw in the collection of the Rev. 

 Prof. E. R. Lewis, at the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, a 

 specimen of JSepialites with eight arms, of which he secured 

 a photograph ; and that Sowerby had long ago obtained from 

 the Lebanon an Octopus collected by Mr. Newbold, to which he 

 had given the name of Calais Newboldi (' Aus dem Orient/ ii. 

 p. 90). 



In the same year (1878) the Rev. Prof. Lewis, F.G.S., gave an 

 interesting description of the Fossil Fish Localities of the Lebanon 

 in the Geological Magazine (pp. 21 4-220). 



In 1879 I described before this Society Squilla Lewisii and 

 Limulus syriacus from the Lebanon Cretaceous (see Quart. Jouru. 

 Geol. Soc. vol. xxxv. pp. 552-556, pi. xxvi.). 



In 1883 I described a new genus of fossil ' Calamary,' Dora- 

 teuthis syriacus, from the Cretaceous of Sahel-el-Alma (see Geol. 

 Mag. 1883, pp. 1-5, pi. i.). 



In 1882 Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S., gave in his Presidential 

 Address to the Geologists' Association an admirable account of the 

 ' Geology of Palestine,' in which the geological horizon of the Hakel 

 and Sahel-el-Alma deposits is discussed, with a coloured map and a 

 plate (Proc. Geologists' Association, vol. viii. 1883-84, pp. 1-53) 

 (see also ' Further Notes,' Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. ix. 1885, 

 pp. 77-104). 



In 1886 Prof. Dr. W. Dames published an account of ten genera 

 and twelve species of Crustacea trom the Cretaceous of the Lebanon. 

 Among them is one figured and described as Protozoea Hilgendorji, 

 Dames, which is represented by three specimens on the slab which 

 contains Calais Newboldi (Zeitschr. d. deutsch. geol. Gesellsch. 

 vol. xxxviii. 1886, p. 577, pi. xv. figs. 5-7). 



The fossil remains of Calais Newboldi are preserved as a delicate 

 ferruginous impression upon the biscuit-coloured surface of one of 

 the fissile slabs of Cretaceous Limestone from Sahel-el-Alma, 

 Mount Lebanon. 



The slab is 9^ inches long by 8 in breadth and 1 in thickness, 

 displaying remains of fossil organisms upon both its surfaces. 



These consist of several small well-preserved fishes, Leptosomus 

 macrurus, Pictet & Humbert, and a small crustacean carapace 

 (believed to be a zoea-form) and named Protozoea Hilgendorji by 

 Dames. 



The Octopus, which occupies the centre of the slab, exhibits its 

 eight arms (or more properly feet or l podites '), each furnished 

 with a row of suckers, which diminish in size gradually from their 

 base to the very slender extremities of the podites. Near the 

 union of the podites with the head, there is a faint trace of what 



