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Kimmeridge." This was a pure guess, and (like most guesses), 

 quite wrong. I had noticed years ago that these patches con- 

 tained Liassic fossils, but as I have always been afraid of being 

 fitted with a certain proverb (' Fools step in where angels fear 

 to tread ' ) I held my peace. I was glad, therefore, when Mr. 

 Lamplugh pointed out the true character of these beds. They 

 are simply boulders on a gigantic scale — large masses of trans- 

 ported Lias. 



I was at Filey on March 29th, and found the shore and cliffs 

 more swept and scoured than I had ever seen them. The rain- 

 fall had been exceptionally heavy, and the sea very rough. 

 Consequently the blue clay beds in the cliff displayed their 

 fossils very conspicuously. Ostrea cymhium was specially fine 

 and abundant, and the characteristic Pholadomya decorata was 

 strongly in evidence. I concluded that these beds in the cliff 

 belonged to the jamesoni zone. 



On the shore, towards low water-mark, the removal of the 

 sand had laid bare a considerable surface of black liassic shale. 

 These beds belong to the communis zone, for the characteristic 

 ammonite abounded, with numbers of Leda ovum. Belemnites 

 were plentiful, but much fractured, having doubtless been 

 injured in transportation. 



The scouring of the beach had apparently destroyed the 

 burrows of a delicate little recent shell, Solen pelhtcidus, live 

 examples of which were lying about with Mactra stuUorum and 

 Syndosmya alba. — Wm. C. Hey. 







At a special meeting of the Geological Society of London, a proposal 

 to admit women to candidature for the Fellowship of the Society was re- 

 jected by fifty votes to forty. 



The ' Greenwell ' collection of British Bronze Weapons, which has 

 recently been acquired for the national collection, has been paid for by 

 Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, and presented to the nation. 



' The Geology of the County between Newark and Nottingham ' is 

 the title of a Memoir by Messrs. G. W. Lamplugh, W. Gibson, R. L. Sher- 

 lock and W. B. Wright, recently issued by H.M. Geological Survey. 



Having heard good reports from some of our readers who have stayed 

 at the Hotel at Oswestry, referred to in our advertisement columns, we 

 have every pleasure in drawing attention to the excellence of the Hotel, 

 as well as to the geological and botanical attractions of that district. 



At the sale of the first portion of the late T. Maddison's (Durham) 

 collection of Lepidoptera, sold at Steven's Rooms on February 24th last, 

 a single variety of the Common Tiger Moth {A. Caja) fetched ^13. The 

 specimen was catalogued as bred at Liverpool, in July 1905. Surely a 

 record price for a variety of this or any other moth ! Two other varieties 

 of the same moth, in the same sale brought £6 and los. respectively. 



1909 May I. 



