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THE GEOLOGIST. 



to the ancient peoples of Denmark, who formed the Bjjokkenmoddings, 

 and those of Switzerland, Ireland, and other regions, who constructed their 

 lake -dwellings." 



M. Baynal, Professor of Physics at Poitiers, has discovered the remains 

 of a crocodile in the oolite of Grand-Pont. The lower jaw is like that of 

 C. Schlegelii of Blainville (Osteog. p. 5, pi. ii.). The opercular bones ex- 

 tend as far as the symphysis, a character unknown in any other crocodile. 

 In allusion to these conditions, the specimen has been termed C.physogna- 

 thus. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Mammalian Remains. — The following passage in Bishop Gibson's 

 translation (ed. 1772) of Camden's ' Britannia,' seemingly refers to Mam- 

 malian remains, and possibly to fossil flint implements : — " After the Wye 

 has run a little further and saluted Goodrich Castle, which King John gave 

 to William, Earl- Marshal, and which was afterwards the principal seat of 

 the Talbots, it takes leave of Herefordshire, and goes into the county of 

 Monmouth. In the south limit of this county is Doward, in the parish of 

 Whitchurch, a pretty high hill, on the top whereof one would guess by the 

 ditches that there had been an ancient fortification ; and what makes it 

 probable is that in digging there for iron-ore and limestone, broad arrow- 

 heads have been found of late years, and not long ago the greatest part of 

 the bones of a gigantic person were found here interred in a place which 

 seemed to be arched over : the length of all the joints was twice the length 

 of others of this age, and they were given by two neighbouring gentlemen, 

 Captain Scudamore and Mr. White, to a surgeon in Bristol." 



Peofessor R. Jones on Foeaminifeea. — For the 6th paragraph on 

 page 294, and the second footnote, substitute the following : — 

 Fig. 9-11. Rotalia* umbilicata, D ' Orbigny, sp. 



This is a small compact variety of Rotalia Beccarii, and is almost, if not quite, the 

 same as Rotalia Soldanii. R. Beccarii lives in rather shallow water, ami some of its 

 varieties live in very shallow water, even in river-mouths and salt-marshes ; whilst R. 

 umbilicata is found in deeper water than tbe type lives in ; and R. orbicularis, another 

 variety, is smaller still, aud exists in deeper parts of the sea, from a hundred to a thou- 

 sand fathoms. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



' Silliman's Journal ' for July contains " Observations upon some of the 

 Brachiopoda, with reference to the genera Cryptorella, Centronella, Meri- 

 stella, and allied forms," by Professor James Hall ; continuation of the 

 " Flora of the Devonian period in North-Eastern America," by Dr. J. 

 W. Dawson ; " New Facts and Conclusions respecting the Fossil Foot- 

 marks in the Connecticut Valley," by Edward Hitchcock ; " On Aerolites 

 and the fall of Stones at Butsura, India, May, 1861," by Professor N. S. 

 Maskelyne. The new works or works preparing for publication noticed 

 are, Annual Report of the State Geologist of California for 1862 ; Map 



* For the description of Rotalia proper, see Carpenter's c Introduction to the Study 

 of Foramiuifcra ' (Ray Society), 1862, p. 212, etc. 



