154 DAVIS: HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND, F.R.S., ETC. 
reversed his engine, put on brakes, and whistled loud and very 
alarmingly, ' but he took no notice, his attention seemed to be on 
the coal train.' Death must have been instantaneous. There could 
be no pain, not even a momentary feeling of alarm or fear. The 
double noise gave no warning of the engine behind, and he was 
struck, unconscious of danger, and not even turning from his watch- 
ing of the other receding train." These are the simple facts as 
recorded by Sir Wm. Jardine in the work already referred to. His 
remains were deposited in the graveyard of Deerhurst Church, 
between Tewkesbury and Gloucester, in the family vault. His entire 
ornithological collection was presented to the new museum of the 
University of Oxford, under the condition of being always open for 
scientific consultation, and a large number of specimens and skele- 
tons, illustrating the comparative anatomy of birds, were presented 
to the museum at Worcester. 
NOTES ON BRITISH EOCENE POLYZOA. BY GEORGE ROBERT VINE. 
PLATE V. 
In the early part of 1887 Mr. G. W. Shi-ubsole, F.G.S., of 
Chester, made over to me, for description or otherwise, a slide of 
London Clay Polyzoa. This slide contained five specimens, com- 
prising four species at least, and I believe that it represented the 
whole of the Polyzoa discovered by his brother when investigating 
the prolific London Clay fanna of Sheerness. 
In addition to this series I have my own private collection which 
has been accumulating for years, but unavoidably slowly, and I have 
also had the advantage of studying collections from the Isle of 
AVight beds, which form parts of the private collections of others I 
am also indebted to Prof T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. , Charles D. Sher- 
bon, and Alfred Bell, Esq., either for the gift, or loan, of Polyzoa 
derived from various Eocene horizons. 
In 1850 William Lonsdale pubhshed, in Dixon's " Geology of 
Sussex," descriptions of four species of Eocene Polyzoa. 
1. Eschara Brongniarti ? M. Edw., Tab. i., fig. 9. 
