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October 2, 1862: — " I have been to tbe place wliere the Kellet skull \ras 

 found, but, jfftcr a careful search, have been unable to pick up more than 

 two small fragments of bones, I know not of what bones. The ])lace where 

 the skeleton was found is rather remarkable. The limestone ro j;k liere- 

 abouts is generally split or rift in parallel lines, and greatly seamed on the 

 surface, with holes, tliat make walking very dangerous when the surface 

 is slippery. In one of these clefts, not mucli more than five feet long and 

 one wide, lay the skeleton. It was some three or four feet from the top, 

 and partially sheltered from the weather by the sides of the rock. At the 

 bottom of the cleft are some bits of loose debris, and perhaps some frag- 

 ments of bone among them, but I could only just reach a few, with my 

 long arm bared and stretched to the utmost. The peasantry had a sort of 

 holiday over the relics three months ago, and the children \\'ashed up 

 many bones. They then put sods over the hole. There arc ])Ci lia])S other 

 pieces down the narrow holes, which no human being can reach without 

 breaking up the rock. What seems strange to me is, that the liole is so 

 shaped as to have left no spare room even for a small human body. It 

 must have been forced in and tightly jammed into its place. This has 

 given rise to the idea that the individual was murdered; and the small 

 size of the hole would lead me to think that the body was that of a woman 

 or undersized man. — William Bollaert, F.E.G.S. 



Gault Black Ven. — In the Jermyn Street Museum, I lately observed 

 a few fossils marked "Gault Black Ven" (Lyme Eegis). They were in 

 dark clay, very like the Gault of Surrey. Could any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me what is the precise position of this bed, whether above or 

 below the deposits with " cowstones," as I do not remember having seen 

 it mentioned in the papers of either Sir H. De la Beche or Mr. Godwin- 

 Austen ? 



Of the fossils exhibited I find that the majority are also found in the 

 whetstone beds of Blackdown, while only one {Inoceramus concentricus) 

 is given in the lists in Jukes's 'Manual,' as occurring in the Gault else- 

 where. 



The identification of any one of the beds in the greensand outliers of 

 the West of England with deposits exposed within the Wealden denu- 

 dation would have an important bearing on the as yet unsolved question 

 of the age of the Blackdown beds, and if undoubted Gault has been met 

 with at Lyme Regis, a public notice of the fiict would, I think, be in- 

 teresting to students of the Lower Cretaceous formations. — C. Evans. 



[A paper on these beds will shortly be read at the Geological Society. — • 

 Ed. Geol.] 



Lower Silurian Eocks in Meath. — The 'Dublin Quarterlv Journal' 

 for October publishes a Paper by Mr. W. H. Baily, F.G.S., " On the Oc- 

 currence of some characteristic Graptolitos and other Fossils indicating 

 certain Divisions of the Lower Silurian Eocks in the Counties of Meath, 

 Tipperary, and Clare." The fossils which drew the author's attention to 

 the subject were a small collection from black-green slates at Bellewstown 

 Hill, amongst which were several specimens of the double Graptolite, 

 Didymnrirapsns Marchisonli, so characteristic of the Llandeilo liags of 

 North Wales. The fossils noted by ]\Ir. Baily from this and other imme- 

 diate localities, although not all from the same bed, are, from blark slates, 

 D'iplograpsm pristis, D. scaJarifonnis, Orthis call if/ ra mm a, O. ahtta, 

 Disciiia, G-niptollthiis Sc lf/wic/cii, G. jyUlssoiii, two species of Lhigula and 

 Siphoiiotreta micitla ; from grey slates, Didj/inoffrapsus Jfurc/n'so/n'/', 

 DiplojrapMus pristis, Limfiila atlennata. Some grey and brown sandy 

 sliales atibrded fragments of Ac id wj) is, Asd^^hus, small univalves of the 



