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THE GEOLOGIST. 



Fossil Eiiuit prom Upper Coal Measures, near Bolton. — Dear Sir, 

 —Having noticed your kindness in inserting any remark upon phenomena 

 which may have passed under the notice of your readers, I take the liberty of 

 making the following. The enclosed is a fruit I have obtained from a quarry 

 in the upper coal measures, near Bolton. It occurred along with masses of 

 Trigonocarpum oliviforme, Noeggerathia, &c., together with Calamites, Sigillari(E, 

 Lepidodendron, and Calmia, &c. ; and the upper flag shales contain numerous 

 impressions of ferns, chiefly Fecopteris lonchitica, Neuropteris, &c. The large 



Lign. 1.— Large Fruit, from the Upper Coal Measures, near Bolton. 



fruit is now in the possession of Mr. Binney, of Manchester : it has six lobes, 

 which ascend from the base and meet at the summit, and it is larger than the 

 usual Tngonocarpum. Its appearance very much resembles the fruit of the 

 Zamia, figured in vol. i. of Mantell's " Medals of Creation." The smaller fruit 



Lign. 2.— Small Fruit, from the Upper Coal Meaam-es, near Bolton. Lign. 3.— Section of 



Small Fruit. 



is about the size of a large pea ; it is much like the larger, but its lobes are 

 not so rounded ; it appears to be the young of the other. If any of yoiu* 

 r(;aders liave met with such an one, and will let me know, or if you wiU offer 

 any remarks, it will oblige yours, John Taylor, Levensliulme. 



(jIeology of Malta. — Sir, — Will you furnish me with some information on 

 ilio subject of the deposits in the island of Gozo, oft' Malta? 



The islands of Malta and Gozo consist of Tertiary rocks. These were 

 described in 1813 by Captain Spratt, who with Lord Ducie has since prepared 

 a geological map of these islands. In the Proceedings of the Geological 

 Society, vol. iv., p. 225, &c., is an account of the beds found in the islands, 

 n;uuely, 1st and uppermost, coral- limestone ; 2, yellow sandstone and blue 

 clay ; 3, IVeesl one ; and !•, semi-crystalline limestone. These strata lie for the 

 most part hori/.ontallv, i hough faulted and crumj^iled in some places. In the 

 Bcnjcmina Hills the four groups of beds have a thickness of about six hundred 

 feet. Professor E. Porbes' report upon the fossils accompanied Captain 

 SjiraiCs memoir. Since then Dr. Wright has figured and described the fossil 



