When Darwin stated in the first edition of the “Descent of Man,” “as probable that horns of all kinds, even when they are equally developed in the two sexes, were primarily acquired by the male in order to conquer other males, and have been transferred more or less completely to the female,” the “various facts” from which he drew this inference did not include any palæontological evidence. At the present day we are familiar with the notion that, as regards the deer family, the oldest members known, from the Oligocene, were absolutely devoid of antlers, and that the subsequent phylogenetic evolution of the latter has a close parallel in their ontogenetic development.

There are four specimens of this form in the WoodwardianMuseum, labelled a 859 and a 860 by Salter, and all come from theWenlock Limestone of Dudley. Salter (loc. cit. supra) says of it:‘Related to E. discors, but with most regular ridges of growth.A beautiful shell, dedicated to a most worthy lady—the patientpreparer of this collection [Mrs. Fletcher].’ All four specimensbelong to the Fletcher Collection.

In the memoir recently published by the Geological Survey on the Selbornian strata of England, no mention is made of an interesting section in the Gault near Glynde, which was certainly in existence up to 1898, when I last visited the district. The object of the present note is to put this section on record, together with some observations on two chalk quarries, from which I have at various times collected fossils.

In 1856 Sharpe founded the species Ammonites Ramsayanus upon a single deformed specimen (in the collection of J. Wiest, Esq.) that was obtained from the “Chalk with silicious grains, at Chardstock, Somersetshire.”

Norwich, England, is represented as situated on the banks of an arm of the sea even in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Lyell's “Principles,” 11th ed., vol. i, p. 521; S. Woodward). Early in the fourteenth century Pagham Harbour was formed by a sudden inroad of the sea (Encyc. Brit, vol. xxii, p. 723).