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The fossils vre liare noticed above liare been derived chiefly from the 
Newsham pit ; they have also been collected, to some extent, from the 
adjoining collieries of Cramlington, and they have been noticed in a lately 
sunk pit at Prestwick. At all these places the fossils are only found in 
the thin bed of black shale that lies immediately over the Low Main Coal. 
NOTES A^D QUERIES. 
Stbicklandia acuminata. — The StricJclandia acuminata was originally 
figured in pi. 2, fig. 2, of the ' Geology of Cheltenham,' by Sir E. I. Mur- 
chison, H. E. Strickland, and Professor Buckman ; and there is also a 
woodcut from Professor Buckman's specimen on the title-page of the 
• Memoir of H. E. Strickland,' and at page 167 of the Memoir, by Sir 
W. Jardine, Bart. The accompanying woodcut (Plate XX.) is from a speci- 
men which was obtained by Mr. H. Strickland from Mr. Dewberry, Chelten- 
ham, and being a much more perfect specimen, it is thought worthy of a 
fresh illustration. 
The quarrymen found the fossil at Sevenhampton, and Professor Buck- 
man's specimen most probably came from the same quarry, as the quarry- 
men said they found it in the Stonesfleld slate-bed. 
The leaf is imbedded in a liard sandy stone, and closely resembles the 
bed of stone called " Stonesfield Slate " at Stonesfield, which at Seven- 
hampton is at the base of the Great Oolite. 
The leaf in form is very nearly identical with that of the existing Salis- 
huria, the similarity of the two leaves striking any one at once when they 
are compared together. 
British Fossil Mammalia and Flint Implements.— In the August 
number of the * Geologist' you ask for any information concerning British 
fossil mammalia not hitherto recorded. I send, therefore, the subjoined 
list. All the specimens have been obtained from the Pleistocene deposits 
of Fisherton, Salisbury, since the publication of Mr. Prestwich's paper in 
1855 :— 
Felis spelcea. Portion of lower jaw, with last molar in situ. 
Hyana spelcea. Nearly entire half of lower jaw, with all the teeth. 
Canis vulpcs. Portion of lower jaw, with teeth and portion of humerus. 
Sus scrofa ? Os calcis, only bone yet found. 
Equus caballus. Both bones and teeth very plentiful. 
Equusfos.silis. Both upper and lower molar teeth of young individuals. 
Bus primi genius. Bones and portion of horn case. 
Bison prisons. Metatarsal bone. 
Bison minor. Both metacarpal and metatarsal bones, not scarce. 
Cervus Guettardi, or young of Cervus tarandus. Portion of shed ant- 
lers and bones. 
Lepus timidus. Fragment of femur. 
Lemmus Gra:nlandicus / Teeth, jaws, and bones of several individuals. 
The portions of skull are too fragmentary to admit of a satisfactory con- 
parison with the recent skeleton. Those portions which have been com- 
pared seem identical with the Orsinyak, or Greenland Lemming, in the 
British Museum. 
Spermophiliis. TJndetermined species. Teeth, jaws, and bones of many 
individuals. 
