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NOTES AITD QUERIES. 
PaL;EONTogea.puical Society. — Dear Sir, — The suggestion of Mr. Wiltshire 
in your number for last month (p. 493), respecting the desirability of bringing the 
■works of the Palfeontographical Society before the notice of your readers, I think 
is a very excellent one ; and it appears to me that the sooner you 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 Gi-eat 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 MoUusca," 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 " Tirabs's Year Book of Facts," under the head of 
Geology, also the AthencRum 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 Palseontographical 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 Wetheeell. 
— 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. 
Ichthyodqruute from staffordshiee. — 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 siaiilar specimen before. 
I send you casts of two of the fragments, which represent the original plant. 
