NOTES AND QUERIES. 



319 



To avoid the repetition of the names of great groups, such an Invertebrata of 

 classes, such as Crustacea, the catalogue should be divided by special headings, 

 thus : — 



CEETACEOUS FORMATIOiT. 



DSTYERTE BRAT A. 



Specimen. 

 No. 



CRUSTACEA. 



Family — Anomiira. 

 Genus. Species. 



Notopocorystes. Bechei. 



Etyus (?). 



Broderipii. 

 Martini. 



Stratum. 

 Gault. 



In answer to the second question, there is no classified stratigraphical list of 

 British fossils. Professor Morris begun such a catalogue in the first volume 

 of this magazine, but when he will continue and complete it 2ce cannot say. 

 Professor Morris's " Catalogue of British Possils," which is arranged on a 

 natural history basis, is a well-known book of reference. Its cost is, we 

 believe, twelve shillings. 



One word we must add, addressed to all collectors. Pray label every speci- 

 men with the locality in which it was found, either by a gummed ticket or by 

 writing on it with ink or India-ink. 



Jewstone and Lapis Lazuli. — ^Deae, Sir, — I enclose you an opinion in 

 support of my own assertion that basalt is locally called jewstone. You wiU 

 find it in a paper on the Iron Kings, by my friend Mr. John RandaU, of 

 Madeley. The following is the passage referred to : — 



" Decidedly the most singular, if not the most interesting member of the 

 Shropshire field, is the outlier of the Brown Clee hills, more particularly by 

 that of Abdon Barf. It is the highest coal-field in England, being nearly three 

 hundred feet above the summit of the Wrekin, an elevation to which it has 

 been raised by volcanic action, the boiliiig up of melted basalt, which lifted the 

 entire group. In many places the subterranean and submarme lava has pierced 

 the seams, consuming the coal, calcining the ironstone, and spreading itself in 

 a sheet along the surface. These coveted minerals, by means of little square 

 shafts, weU. planked on the four sides to the bottom, are sought for amid rents 

 the earthquake and volcano have made, and beneath a covering of basalt so hard 

 as to resist the tool, and from that circumstance called jewstone by the 

 miners." 



I ought to have given the real derivation of the word, which is, of course, 

 from the Celtic dhii (black). In this border country we have many primitive 

 words. Clee is but the Saxon leagh aspirated in the C^vyric fashion, as if it 

 was spelt cllee. 



I have been into the region of the clees this last ■week, and am very much 

 pleased to acknowledge my entire belief in the discovery of the lapis lazuli, 

 which I noted in my " Bocks," p. 38, as a stated but somewhat dubious pro- 

 duction of the Titterstone basalt. T\Taile at Cleobury I met with the stone- 

 breaker, William Gettings by name, who found it while breaking basalt for 

 road-stone, and I am quite convinced, from the simple truthful manner in 

 which he related the circumstance, that it was a bona fide find. — G. E. Bobekts. 



Pish and Entomostraca in Upper Coal-Measures. — Dear Sir, — 

 I should be glad to ask in your magazine if any fish-remains have been 

 detected in the estuarine shales of the uppermost coal-measures. (Siluria, 

 third edition, p. 322.) Since I wrote my " Bocks of Worcestershire," tliis 

 interesting bed has been broken into at a fresh place, Bees' Pit, near Blake- 



