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shells. The fossils in this bed are better preserved than in 
any of the beds at present described, except “ L.” Ammonites 
maryaritatus and Pleuromya costata are particularly abundant 
at Byfield. The best places for examining it are near to 
Byfield and Watford respectively. At each of these places it 
has a thickness of about 8ft. 
Fossils. 
Ammonites maryaritatus ... Byfield. 
Ammoni tes m ary a) ita ti is , 
var. snbnodosus . Byfield. 
Belem,nit es . By field, Watford. 
Chemnitzia ( [sp . ?). Watford. 
Turbo aciculus . Byfield. 
Ostrea cymbium . Byfield, Watford, &c. 
Ostrea sportella . Byfield. 
Pecten ccquivalvis . Byfield, Watford. 
Pecten liasinus . By field, Watford. 
Limea acuticosta . Byfield, Watford. 
Plicatula spinosa . Byfield, Watford. 
Avicula ineequiralris .Byfield. 
Pinna (sp. 1 ?) . Byfield. 
Inoceramus substriatus _ Byfield. 
Modiola numismalis . Byfield. 
Protocardium truncatum ... Byfield, Watford. 
Cucullcca transversa . Byfield. 
Unicardium ylobosum . Byfield. 
Astarte striato-sulcata . Watford. 
Cardita multicostata . Byfield, Watford. 
Pholadomya ambiyua .Byfield, Watford. 
Pleuromya costata . Byfield, Watford. 
Pleuromya (sp. ?). Byfield. 
A r corny a h ispida . By field. 
Cardinia Icevis .Watford. 
Serpula . Byfield, Watford. 
(To be continued.) 
A SUCCESSFUL POND HUNT. 
BY THOMAS BOLTON, F.R.M.S. 
On Saturday afternoon, May 2nd, the President of the 
Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society took 
me to a small farm at King’s Norton “ pondemeering,” as a 
friend of mine calls it; nearly every field on the farm con¬ 
tained a small pool or marl-pit, and I think it may interest 
your readers to give an account of my collections. 
