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October 2, 1862: — *' I bare been to tbe place wbere tbe Kellet skull was 
found, but, after a careful search, have been unable to pick up more than 
two small fragments of bones, I know not of what bones. The place where 
the skeleton was found is rather remarkable. The limestone rosk here- 
abouts is generally split or rift in parallel lines, and greatly seamed on the 
surface, with holes, that make walking very dangerous when the surface 
is slippery. In one of these clefts, not much 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 onlj^ 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 washed up 
many bones. They then put sods over the hole. There are perhaps 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 hole 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 Vex. — In the Jermyn Street Museum, I lately observed 
a few fossils marked "Gault Black Yen" (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 fact 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 Quarterly Journal' 
for October publishes a Paper by Mr. W. H. Baily, F.G.S., " On the Oc- 
currence of some characteristic Graptolites 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, 
Didymofirapsiis Murcliisonii, so characteristic of the Llandeilo flags of 
North Wales. The fossils noted by Mr. Baily from this and other imme- 
diate localities, although not all from the same bed, are, from black slates, 
Diplograpsus pristis, D. scalariformis, Orthis calligramma, O. alata, 
Disciiia, GraptoUthus Sedgwickii, G. NiUssoni, two species of Lingula and 
Siphonotreta micula ; from grey slates, Didymograpsus MurcMsonii, 
Diplograpsus pristis, Lingula attenuata. Some grey and brown sandy 
shales afforded fragments of Acidaspis, Asaphus, small univalves of the 
