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water and was covered by strata 12 yards in thickness, after whicli it 

 arose once more and became overspread by the vegetation which 

 formed the hard-bed coal. How long it remained a land surface we 

 cannot say, but there is much evidence to show that this time was of 

 great duration. Once more the land slowly sank beneath the waters^ 

 this time being covered by a deep blue sea in which myriads of marine 

 animals disported themselves, conspicuous among them being the 

 Nautilus and Goniatltes^ which swarmed in countless millions and 

 decked in all the wealth of form and colour which those beautiful 

 shells were endowed with. Great and manifold as the facts undoubt- 

 edly are which I have brought before you, which the study of the 

 strata enveloping the hard bed coal has revealed to us concerning the 

 history of the period when these rocks were forming, yet we are only 

 on the threshold of the knowledge which they are capable of affording 

 us, for the study of the contents of the round balls obtained from the 

 hard bed coal itself is, if possible, still more important and interesting. 



(To he continued.) 



Death of Mr. Edward Newman. — Death has lately made sad havoc 

 amongst the devotees to entomology, but since the loss of Henry 

 Doubleday, none will be received with such wide spread regret, as that 

 of Edward Newman, Editor of the "Zoologist," and "Entomologist"; 

 author of the " Illustrated British Butterflies and Moths ; " and other 

 ornithological and entomological works. Mr. Newman died on the 12th 

 instant from the effects of stricture, and afterwards pyaemia. He was 

 formerly President of the London Entomological Society, was a Fellow 

 of the Linnean and Zoological Societies, as well as of various Continental 

 and Scientific Associations. For many years he was the close friend of 

 the late Henry Doubleday, and was known throughout the whole Ento= 

 mological and Ornithological world. He was an occasional correspondent 

 of my own for a number of years. — Geo. T. Porritt. 



June 16th, 1876. 



Acronycta alni at Potherham. — I beat a good specimen of Acro7iycta 

 alni out of a birch tree last Tuesday. — James Bloor. 

 Rotherham, June 18th, 1876. 



Redwing. — I was recently shown by Mr. T. Machen, a very intelligent 

 observer, a pair of redwings, which had been shot at Bridlington in the 

 summer-time. Unfortunately the date was not written down at the time, 

 and is now forgotten, but the period of the year is most unusual, as you 

 ai'e aware, — J. H. Gurney, Jun,, Northrepps, Norwich. 



