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Mr. G. Sheppard has also found a piece of an Ammonite 

 from the same locahty, which may possibly be the same species. 

 Both these specimens are in the Geological gallery of the Hull 

 Museum. 



Another Ammonite which I obtained from the Cornbrash 

 of Scarborough is Macrocephalites compressus Blake ; a large 

 specimen of which I sent to Mr. Crick, who informed me of the 

 fact that they had not previously a specimen from the York- 

 shire Cornbrash in the Natural History collection. 



Professor Blake, although he worked in the Scarborough 

 district, did not find M. compressus. 



I also found a large Nautilus possibly N. truncatus, which, 

 with another large specimen of M. compressus, is now in the 

 Hull Museum. The former is lo'" x 12'', and the latter measures 

 6" X io\ 



Two Ammonites I obtained from the Scarborough Limestone 

 on the rocks nearly opposite to Holbeck gardens, Mr. Crick 

 refers to Normanites hraikenridgii macer Quenstedt, and quite 

 distinct from Sowerby's A. hraikenridgii. See Quenstedt 

 ' Die Ammoniten des schwabischen Jura,' Vol. 11., 1886-7, 

 plate 65, figs. 4, 5. 



The Bill ' to make further provision with respect to the University of 

 Durham ' has been printed. 



Still they come, and go. The ' Lancashire Naturalist ' has closed its 

 career on the completion of its twelfth monthly issue. 



Mr. Edwin Goldthorpe Bayford, of Barnsley, a prominent member of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, was recently elected a Fellow of the 

 Entomological Society. 



The Guildhall at Boston, a fifteenth century building, is likely to be 

 rescued from its present obj.ect as a furniture store, and will probably be 

 made into a museum, a liberal offer towards the establishment of a local 

 museum having been made to the Boston Town Council. 



Mr. J. W. Jackson, of the Manchester Museum, has favoured us with 

 reprints of two valuable papers. The first is his useful ' Bibliography of 

 the Non-marine Mollusca of Lancashire,' which appeared in the Journal 

 of Conchology, and the second is from the June ' Geological Magazine,' 

 and deals with a ' Mottled Foraminiferous Limestone in West and North 

 Lancashire.' We are glad to see that Mr. Jackson has recently been 

 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. 



There has recently been issued from the Taunton Castle Museum, a 

 ' Report of the Excavations at Wick Barrow, Stogursey, Somersetshire,' 

 by H. St. George Gray. This contains an admirable account of the con- 

 tents of the mound, and with one skeleton was found a flint dagger, almost 

 identical with that from Middleton, figured in this journal for July. In 

 the Wick barrow, as in the Middleton example, the flint dagger was found 

 m association with a ' drinking cup ' — an association very rarely met with 

 m British barrows. 



1908 August I. 



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