Geological magazine . e used rather than Charmouthian. I am not aware that thisprinciple is binding in stratigraphical nomenclature. But, whateverterm finally is selected, there is no need either to shift the boundariesof Mayer-Eymars Charmouthian or to object to the term on the scoreof topographical inexactitude. W. D. Lang. THE EED CKAG PORTEAIT. Sir,—In the last number of the Geological Magazine (May, 1912)the Eev. 0. Fisher figures some of the early handiworks of these is the sawn bone recorded as from the Crag, which wasin Sir Joseph Prestwichs collection for many years and is n
Geological magazine . e used rather than Charmouthian. I am not aware that thisprinciple is binding in stratigraphical nomenclature. But, whateverterm finally is selected, there is no need either to shift the boundariesof Mayer-Eymars Charmouthian or to object to the term on the scoreof topographical inexactitude. W. D. Lang. THE EED CKAG PORTEAIT. Sir,—In the last number of the Geological Magazine (May, 1912)the Eev. 0. Fisher figures some of the early handiworks of these is the sawn bone recorded as from the Crag, which wasin Sir Joseph Prestwichs collection for many years and is now in theBritish Museum. This reminds one not merely of the Eed Crag portrait-shell inwhich Sir Joseph was much interested, hut accentuates the fact thatthis shell has never been illustrated. Consequently no figures of itare available for those who are interested, and its appearance is onlyknown to our personal friends and some others who have seen repeating its history it must be mentioned in explanation. Carved Shell of Pectunculus glycimeris, Lmn. Eed Crag : Walton-on-the-Naze,Essex. Eeproduced from a photograph, nat. size. ^ Eenevier, loc. cit. 286 Obi/nar//—Professor R. S. Tarr. that in 1881, when it was brought forward by Mr. Henry Stopes ata British Association meeting, it was considered ivrong to suggest thatman could have been alive at so early a date. Mr. Stopes wastherefore content to wait till further evidence came to hand beforebringing it before a wider public ; but his early death left his workunfinished, so the shell has never been figured. The accompanying illustration is from a photograph and indicatesthe natural size of the shell ; it shows clearly most details of itsfeatures except the coloration. It should be noted that the excavatedportions are as deeply coloured red-brown as the rest of the is an important point, because when the surfaces of Red Crag-shells are scratched they show wliite below the colour. It shoi;ldalso be noti
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