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buried deep in the gold drift, and covered with five successive overflows 
of lava. 
The Cetiosaurus, or Great Oolitic Lizard. — The Geological Magazine of 
July 1869 announced the discovery of the thigh-bone of this monster, and 
since then Professor Phillips, writing to the Athenceum of April 2, states 
that further remains have been found. 11 The space of ground in which the 
bones ore found (writes Prof. Phillips) is apparently quite limited. One 
may think the whole body of the vast old lizard, in the extremity of age, 
was here laid to uneasy rest ; the parts separated by decay ; the massive 
limbs disjointed, and the bones displaced. Imagine a surface of the ossi- 
ferous clay which covers the Oolite laid bare by the workmen. Look south- 
ward : before you are four bones laid rudely parallel, in a row, at intervals 
of 1, 2, or 3 feet. They are 64, 54, 45, and 37 inches long; 10 inches the 
least breadth in the narrowest part ; 26 inches the greatest breadth in the 
widest part. These are bones of Cetiosaurus. Over them and in front of 
them, three days since, lay as many others, as large and as quietly reposing 
in their 1 longseval ’ graves ; behind them, possibly, are still more bones, to 
be discovered at some future time. Bones of a much mightier area — pro- 
bably hugest of all huge ilia — extended far and wide ; vertebrae 8, 9, and 
11 inches in diameter; monstrous ribs, of which the parts traceable and 
inferred are 59 inches long ; all this within the compass of a few square 
yards. It seems like the burial-place of the great father of lizards, each of 
whose bones demanded — but only some could obtain — a separate grave.” 
Fossil Insects in the Bournemouth Leaf -heel. — The following letter, which 
appears in the Geological Magazine for May, may interest some of our 
readers. It is from Mr. J. F. Walker: — The Rev. P. B. Brodie, in the 
March number of the Geological Magazine , p. 141, directs the attention of 
the explorers of the Leaf-beds in the Lower Bagshot Series of Hants and 
Dorset, to the desirability of looking out for insect-remains ; particularly at 
Bournemouth. Mr. Brodie may be glad to learn that Mr. Wanklyn has 
already recorded the discovery of insect-remains at Bournemouth, in the 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History for January 1869, 4th series, 
vol. iii., No. 13, p. 10. The specimen has been placed by the discoverer in 
the hands of Mr. W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., the Assistant Secretary of the 
Geological Society of London, who has kindly undertaken to examine and 
describe it. 
Eminent Living Geologists. — The Geological Magazine has shown consider- 
able enterprise in publishing, as it has done recently, a series of biographical 
sketches as above. Those which have already appeared are biographies of 
Sedgwick and Scrope, and are accompanied by excellent engravings of these 
well-known workers in the field of Geology. 
The Milk- dentition of rala-othet'ium magnum. — Professor Huxley contri- 
butes a brief but very important paper on this subject to the Geological 
Magazine for April. A plate accompanies the paper. The author deals 
with some serious errors which a certain well-known palaeontologist made 
some time ago. He shows the mistake on which the genus Balaplotherium 
was founded, and by which M. Pictet was misled. 
The Cheshire Sands. — Mr. J. E. Taylor, in a brief communication, gives 
the following ns a list of beds passed through in the sinking of a well for 
