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IN NATURE for July 26, in a notice of Mr. Fox-Strangway's memoir on the Loughborough district, reference is made to certain Foraminifera of Liassic type, at one time believed to come from the local Trias. Prof. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., has kindly directed my attention to his explanation of the matter in the “Foraminifera of the Crag,” part ii., p. 161, published by the Palæontographical Society in 1895. He there gives a history of the observations, including personal inquiries, and believes that the Foraminifera. in question came from Liassic clay in Leicestershire, which was “inadvertently thrown in with the red clay on its journey to Cubitt's works in London.” Mr. Fox-Strangways gives a reference to this passage, but does not quote it, and suggests on his own part that the Foraminifera may have come from Liassic material in the drift.
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COLE, G. The alleged Triassic Foraminifera of Chellaston, near Derby. Nature 74, 489 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074489b0
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