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especially so as Prof. Lebour was the first to direct my attention to 

 the misplacement. 



Horizon and Localities. — Scaur Limestone Series : Redesdale, 

 Northumberland. Brady gives Elf Hills and Fourstones. 



This completes my list of the Foraminifera from these Northern 

 Shales, and I have purposely given a rather full reference to the 

 labours of Mr. Brady, because I believe, as before stated, that the 

 work is difficult of access to the generality of students. It is now 

 to be hoped that better work than was possible to me, will follow ; 

 and by others, to whom the material may be more accessible. 



With regard to the other examples of the micro-organisms of these 

 Upper Shales, it may be well to furnish a few details.. In the Four- 

 stones and Lowick material, besides fragments of Echinoderms of 

 two or three species, there are a few minute Brachiopoda (spawn ?), 

 and two examples of Gasteropods ; but these are very, very rare. In 

 the Prudhowe Quarry rotted limestone material I have been able to 

 pick out spines and plates of Archaocidaris Jtrei ? Fleming, and also 

 what I believe to be fragments of Pisoc7-inus globularis ? De Kon., and 

 plates of Palcechi?iiis. I have not, however, met with any examples 

 of Foraminifera, Polyzoa, or Entomostraca, in the material from this 

 locality. 



PAL^ONTOLOGICAL NOTES, 



Large Ammonite at Hessle. — I am indebted to Mr. J. Sleight, a 

 member of the Geological Section of the Hull Field Naturalists' Society, for the 

 following : — The contractors for the Hull and Barnsley Railway have extensively 

 worked the chalk quarries on the south side of the Humber, opposite to Hessle, 

 and met with an Ammonite in perfect preservation, of the noteworthy size of 

 22 inches diameter and 65 inches circumference, which is now in the possession of 

 Mr. Sleight. 



Mammalian Remains at Kelsey Hill, Holderness.— The same 



contractors have also extensively worked the famous Glacial Gravel Deposit at 

 Kelsey Hill, in Holderness. A well-developed Rhinoceros Horn, an Elephant's 

 Tooth and many smaller Bones, evidently coeval with the gravel deposit, were 

 frequently found, and are mostly in the possession of the engineer. — N. F. 

 Dob REE, President Hull Field Naturalists' Society, August 20th, 1885. 



BOTANICAL NOTE. 

 Polypodium alpestre in the South of England.—*! received the 



other day from Mr. T. Bunker, of Goole, for identification, a fern found growing 

 'high up on a wall in Devon,' which proved to be Polypodium alpestre Hoppe. 

 The occurrence of a typical alpine species in the extreme south of England was 

 scarcely to be expected, and is an interesting fact in connection with the distribution 

 of this species. — G. Massee, Scarborough, xA.ugust 17th, 1885. 



Naturalist, 



