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contiguous to each other, perhaps ten or twelve feet deep, some 
fifteen or twenty in width, and thirty perhaps in length. Into 
these the bodies seem to have been thrown without any order 
or respect, the feet being often higher than the head. A thin 
covering of earth seems to have been cast over each corpse 
until a certain distance from the surface was reached. Each 
of these pits contained a large number of skeletons—that they 
were of the Roman period was evident from the fragments of 
pottery which were found near and among them.’ 
April 4th. —W. H. Hudleston, M. A., F. G. S., and 
John Francis Walker, M. A., F, Gr. S., &c., “ On the 
distribution of the Brachiopoda in the Oolitic strata of York¬ 
shire.” 
In preparing this list of the species of Brachiopoda found in 
the Oolitic strata of Yorkshire, we have not attempted to 
reprint a complete list of all the species which have been said to 
occur in these strata, but have only enumerated those species 
which we have ourselves found, or of which we have authentic 
information as regards locality and horizon. The references are 
made to sections in Mr. Hudleston’s Papers on the “ Yorkshire 
Oolites,” which have appeared in the Proceedings of the 
Geologists’ Association. The new species are, or will be, fully 
described and figured in Mr. Davidson’s supplement to his 
great monograph on Jurassic Brachiopoda. We include in our 
list 27 species, of which 7 occur in the Dogger beds of the 
Inferior Oolite, 4 in the Millepore series and its inland 
equivalents, one of these also occurs in the Scarbro’ Limestone, 
5 in the Cornbrash and A n'c«7tf~shales, 2 in the Kelloway Rock, 
2 in the Oxford Clay, 5 in the Lower Calcareous Grit and 
Passage beds, 1 in the Coral Rag, and 3 in the Kimmeridge 
Clay. The number of species of each genus is, Lingula , 2 species. 
Discincc , 2 ; Terebratulci 7; Walclheimia , 7 ; Rhynclionella , 9. 
The number of species contained in the Inferior Oolite of York¬ 
shire is very small when compared with that of the South of 
England; the estuarine conditions under which the upper part 
of this formation was deposited in this area appear to have 
been unfavourable to their development. The specimens 
