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bookseller. A still more recent map on the same scale, and therefore of superior 
value in some respects, though perhaps less complete as regards the insertion of small 
towns and villages, has been published within the last twelve months, under the 
title of 44 A Geological Map of England, Wales , and Part of Scotland ; showing 
also the Inland Navigation by means of Rivers and Canals, with their Elevation 
in Feet above the Sea; together with the Rail-roads and principal Roads. By 
J. and C. Walker. No. 9, Castle-Street, Holborn, London.” Either of these 
maps will be found extremely useful. We shall, however, be happy to receive 
any information respecting geological maps of counties.— Ed.] 
Geological Discovery.— On the 8th of March Mr. P. Marratt (son of Mr. 
Marratt, lecturer on Geology, from Liverpool) discovered in a stone-quarry, at 
Strensham, about seven miles from Tewkesbury, part of the skeleton of an 
Ichthyosaurus. He had been out several times in the neighbourhood in search of 
fossils, when, in one of these excursions, a man at work in a pit showed him a 
single vertebra, which he had picked up as a curiosity. After a minute search in 
the walls of the pit, Mr. M. had the good fortune to discover another bone pro¬ 
truding from a bed of Clay Shale, and a few more of the vertebrae were obtained 
that evening. The next morning he again repaired to the spot, and directed the 
workmen to exqavate a large opening, when the paddles and a number more of 
the vertebrae, with the arms (the humerus, radius, &c., attached to the paddles), 
were found in good preservation. The ribs are much broken, as the skeleton was 
lying on one of its sides. More than fifty of the vertebrae have been found, and 
measure five feet and a half in length; but the whole of the head is wanting. 
The entire length of the animal must have been upwards of ten feet. Thus has 
another of these precious reliquiae, the ancient inhabitants of our earth, been 
brought to light, by a young man not nineteen years of age. Three teeth and 
part of a paddle of another Ichthyosaurus have since been found by Mr. M. in a 
different pit, about 300 yards from the former, which certainly gave indications 
of a head having been deposited somewhere in the vicinity ; but after a patient 
search for three days, no head could be found. Mr. Marratt, Sen., and his son, 
at the time of this interesting discovery were engaged in delivering a course of 
lectures on Geology to the members of the Tewkesbury Scientific Society recently 
established in that borough, and during their stay in the neighbourhood produced 
numerous rare and beautiful fossils, &c., from the vicinity of Bredon Hill and 
adjoining villages. 
