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They much resemble the well-known Cambrian shales of Griff Hollow 
and Stockingford, and possibly belong to the same formation. At the 
bottom of the shaft a bore hole is being made, which was already 
between 40ft. and 50ft. deeper in the same shales. The shaft is a mile 
and a half beyond the eastern edge of the Warwickshire Coal Field. 
The River Anker flows at about 50ft. or 60ft. lower level at a short 
distance to the north, and if its valley were carefully searched it is 
perhaps possible that outcrops of these ancient rocks might be found 
on the surface.—W. Andrews, Coventry. 
Erratum.— I regret that, owing to a slip of the pen, the names of 
the fungi in my note on p. 25 are wrongly given, myces being used for 
ascus. The two species should be Gymnoascus ruber and G. lleesii, and 
the group Gymnoasceae.—W. B. Grove, B.A. 
Imports of Societies. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY— General Meeting, Lee. 1. Mr. T. Bolton exhibited the 
plasmodium of a myxomycete, in which the rhythmic movements of 
the granules and protoplasm were explained by Professor W. Hillhouse, 
M.A. Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., read his paper on “ New or Noteworthy 
Fungi,” Part 3. The paper described about twenty species of Fimgi 
found in this neighbourhood, many of them new to science, and all new 
or rare in Great Britain. It was illustrated by specimens, and portions 
of some of them, under the microscopes, also by carefully executed 
drawings showing their structure, Ac.; among them were the following : 
Mortierella polycephala , a fungus on sphagnum ; Septocylindrium Chert o- 
spira , llelininthosporium Anglicum , and Catenularia simplex , on dead 
wood, all new to Great Britain. Microscopical General Meeting, 
Jan. 19.—Mr. R. W. Chase exhibited and described photographs of the 
two white-tailed eagles lately shot in Kent, which have been falsely repre¬ 
sented in the newspapers as golden eagles. Mr. C. T. Parsons exhibited 
thirty-three specimens of fossil gums, from Africa, containing beauti¬ 
fully preserved insects; the specimens included animi, copal, and 
kowri. Mr. Clarke exhibited mounted specimens of Holopedium 
yibberum, from Grasmere. Mr. J. Morley exhibited a submarine hemip¬ 
terous insect, of a new genus, JEpopliilus Bonnairei , from the Channel 
Islands. Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., exhibited Lentomita awpullasca 
(Cooke), a rare spliseriaceous fungus, and Pachnocybe subulata , on bark 
of sycamore, from Sutton; Rhizomorpha subcorticalis, between bark and 
wood of sycamore, from Sutton; and on a specimen of the same species, 
Arthrobotryum stilboideum, from Yorkshire, collected by Mr. Soppitt; 
also Phoma cornplanata, Torula hi/Gerioides, from Sutton ; and Laphio- 
trema angustilabra , from Middleton. Mr. T. Bolton exhibited a new 
arrangement for adapting the electric light to the microscope; also 
Messrs. Beck’s cheap cardboard slide case, to hold 288 slides, for 8s. 9d. 
BIRMINGHAM MICROSCOPISTS’ AND NATURALISTS’ 
UNION.—December 21st. Mr. Deakin exhibited specimens of scales 
teeth, and other fish remains, in carboniferous shale, from Pouk Hill 
Mr. Madison, specimens of Sphcerium ovale from near Manchester 
Mr. Evans, a hermit crab, Suberites dornuncula, in a case of silica 
