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NOTES A^B QUERIES. 



Pal^oxtogeaphical Society. — Dear Sir, — Tlie suggestion of Mr, Wiltshire 

 in your number for last month (p. 493), respecting the desirability of bringing the 

 Avorks of the Paljfiontographical Society before the notice of your readers, I think 

 is a very e3;cellent cne ; and it appears to me that the sooner jou can make the 

 necessary arrangements for so doing the better. From the last annual report of 

 the Council, it appears that up to the present time 2,589 species have been 

 described by the various authors by 8,682 figures, and 3,857 pages of letter-press. 

 The works for 1857 are in an advanced condition, and it is hoped that the volume 

 will be out before the termination of the present year. The following is a list 

 of the monographs which it contains : — 



" British Fossil Reptiles," (continued) by Professor Owen, ten plates, 

 "Bryozoa of the Crag," by Professor Busk, eighteen plates. 

 " Carboniferous Brachiopoda of Great Britain," by Mr. Davidson, eight plates. 

 " British Oolitic Echinodermata," by Dr. Wright, fourteen plates. 



The following is a list of the monographs in preparation for the year 1858 : — 



*' Fossil Reptilia of Great Britain," Part IX., by Professor Owen. 



" British Carboniferous Brachiopoda," by Mr. Davidson. 



" Shells of the Chalk," by Mr, Lucas Barrett. 



" British Fossil Echinodermata," Part IV., by Dr. Wright. 



"Eocene Mollusca," Part IV., by Mr. F. E, Edwards. 



" British Fossil Crustacea," Part II., by Professor Bell. 



It has often surprised me that so little notice has been taken by the scientific 

 periodicals of the day of the publication of these splendid monographs, as the 

 Society has now been in existence some eleven or twelve years. I have searched 

 several of the volumes of " Timbs's Year Book of Facts," under the head of 

 Geology, also the AthencBum and some other periodicals, without success ; and 

 with the exception of the notices in the annual addresses of the Presidents of the 

 Geological Society these monographs appear to have been almost passed over 

 in silence. A brief sketch of the circumstances which led to the origin and 

 formation of the Palaeontographical Society from the pen of its excellent 

 secretary. Dr. Bowerbank, I am sure would be perused with much satisfaction by 

 your numerous subscribers, especially if accompanied by remarks on the mono- 

 graphs now completed and in progress. 



Dear Sir, yours very truly, 

 Highgate. Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell. 



— We have already stated our intention to give a full notice of this Society, and 

 its admirable publications ; we shall do so in an early number of the volume of the 

 ensuing year. 



IcHTHYOBORtTLiTB EROM STAFFORDSHIRE. — Deae Sie, — In the course of my 

 researches in this district, I have found the exterior cast of what appears to me a 

 plant in ironstone. The cavity was quite empty, not a trace of carbon being left.. 

 Although I have been collecting here for more than thirty years, I never met with 

 a siiaailar specimen before. 



I send you casts of two of the fragments, which represent the original plant. 



