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THE GEOLOGIST. 
to the ancient peoples of Denmark, who formed the Kjokkenmoddings, 
and those of Switzerland, Ireland, and other regions, who constructed their 
lake -dwellings." 
M. Eaynal, Professor of Physics at Poitiers, has discovered the remains 
of a crocodile in the oolite of Grand-Pont. The lower jaw is like that of 
C. Schlegelii of Blainville (Osteog. p. 5, pi. ii.). The opercular bones ex- 
tend as far as the symphysis, a character unknown in any other crocodile. 
In allusion to these conditions, the specimen has been termed C.physogna- 
thus. 
NOTES AiSD QUERIES. 
Mammalian Remains. — The following passage in Bishop Gibson's 
translation (ed. 1772) of Camden's ' Britannia,' seemingly refers to Mam- 
malian remains, and possibly to fossil flint implements : — " After the Wye 
has run a little further and saluted Goodrich Castle, which King John gave 
to William, Earl- Marshal, and which was afterwards the principal seat of 
the Talbots, it takes leave of Herefordshire, and goes into the county of 
Monmouth. In the south limit of this county is Do ward, in the parish of 
Whitchurch, a pretty high hill, on the top whereof one would guess by the 
ditches that there had been an ancient fortification ; and what makes it 
probable is that in digging there for iron-ore and limestone, broad arrow- 
heads have been found of late years, and not long ago the greatest part of 
the bones of a gigantic person were found here interred in a place which 
seemed to be arched over : the length of all the joints was twice the length 
of others of this age, and they were given by two neighbouring gentlemen, 
Captain Scudamore and Mr. White, to a surgeon in Bristol." 
Peofessor R. Jones on Foeaminifeea. — For the 6th paragraph on 
page 294, and the second footnote, substitute the following : — 
Fig. 9-11. Rotalia* umbilicata, D' Orbigny, sp. 
This is a small compact variety of Rotalia Beccarii, and is almost, if not quite, the 
same as Rotalia Soldanii. R. Beccarii lives in rather shallow water, and some of its 
varielies live in very shallow water, even in river-mouths and salt-marshes ; whilst R. 
timbilicata is found in deeper water than the type lives in ; and R. orhicvlaris, another 
variety, is smaller still, and exists in deejjer parts of the sea, from a hundred to a thou- 
sand fathoms. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 
' Silliman's Journal ' for July contains " Observations upon some of the 
Brachiopoda, with reference to the genera Cryptorella, Centronella, Meri- 
stella, and allied forms," by Professor James Hall ; continuation of the 
"Flora of the Devonian period in North-Eastern Am.erica," by Dr. J, 
W. Dawson ; " New Facts and Conclusions respecting the Fossil Foot- 
marks in the Connecticut Yalley," by Edward Hitchcock ; " On Aerolites 
and the fall of Stones at Butsura, India, May, 1861," by Professor JN". S. 
Maskelyne. The new works or works preparing for publication noticed 
are, Annual Report of the State Geologist of California for 1862 ; Map 
* For the description of Rotalia proper, see Carpenter's ' Introduction to the Study 
of Foramiuifera ' (Ray Society), 1862, p. 212, etc. 
