Polyzoa, etc.—Among our early contributors stands the well-known name of George Busk, author of a “Catalogue of Polyzoa in the British Museum” (1852–54) and a most valuable monograph on the “Polyzoa of the Crag” (Pal. Soc., 1859). Busk sent a paper (in 1866) to this Magazine on “Polyzoa from the London Clay of Highgate,” describing three genera and species new to science. Professor H. A. Nicholson wrote on Callopora in crassata from the Devonian of Canada; on Heterodictya from the Devonian of Ontario; and on the geological distribution of Solenopora compacta (1885). Professor Dr. Ferdinand Roemer (in 1880) recorded the genus Caunopora in the Devonian of South Devon. Robert Etheridge, jun. (1873), figured and described Carinella, a new genus from Carluke, Lanarkshire, and Bamipora from the Caradoc Beds of Corwen, North Wales. G. R. Vine discoursed on Carboniferous Polyzoa (in 1880); F. D. Longe on Oolitic Polyzoa (in 1881); and Dr. J. W. Gregory on some Jurassic species of Cheilostomata (in 1894).

The recent gift to the Museum of a fine series of Lower Palæozoic fossils from the Haverfordwest area by Mr. V. M. Turnbull, M.A., who has personally collected them with much care, has at length provided us with the means of determining many of the interesting species which were mentioned without specific names (on account of their imperfect preservation) by Messrs. Marr and Roberts in their paper on this district. The collections from which their lists were drawn up are in the Sedgwick Museum.

During the last few months I have been engaged in examining the remains of the fossil Vertebrates from the Middle and Upper Eocene of the Fay ûm district of Egypt, with a view to the preparation of the detailed monograph which it is proposed to publish on this subject. As it will be some months before this can appear, it seems desirable to give a brief account of some of the more important results arrived at, and preliminary descriptions of such new forms as have come to light in the course of the work. The collections examined include all the material belonging to the British Museum, as well as many of the more important specimens from the Geological Museum of Cairo. There still remains in Cairo a large collection of bones, which I hope to have an opportunity of working out during the next few weeks.

According to Professor Blanford the only example of this species in the Straehey Collection was the fragment which he figured. This is now in the British Museum collection [No. C. 5045]; it was transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, labelled with one of that Museum's labels “Oolitic: Niti Pass. Ammonites scriptus (Stra.). Coll. by Col. Strachey.” The figures, which are all reversed, are not good. The portion of the fossil that is figured is entirely septate; the anterior part of the specimen that formed the base of the body-chamber is not included in the figure, nor does the figure show the shorter intermediate ribs which extend over the outer half of the lateral area of the whorl.

Lying unconformably upon the well-known Liassic beds of Black Ven, the cliff which overhangs the sea-shore between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, occur beds of Cretaceous age, representing the Gault and Upper Greensand of other localities. The lower beds consist of loams, dark and almost black where the clay predominates over the sand, and lighter where the sand is present in larger quantities. Above these loams are yellow sands containing indurated nodules called ‘Cowstones,’ which, with the ‘Foxmould’ sands above them, have been considered to represent the zone of Schlœnbachia rostrata (Sowerby). The dark loams below them represent, therefore, the zone of Hoplites interruptus (Bruguière).