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bourhood of Ran. Ficaria bearing Aecidium Ficariee. The Uromyces had not 

 previously been observed in England, but Mr. Plowright has received it from 

 correspondents at Saltaire in Yorkshire and at Ely, to whom he had suggested 

 to look for it in the neighbourhood of attacked plants of the Ranunculus. 

 (December) — "An Ancient Atoll-reef," is a summary of the paper read at the 

 meeting of the British Association in Southport, by Mr. James Thomson, 

 F.G.S., on the Lower Carboniferous Limestone Beds at Arbigland Bay, fifteen 

 miles to the south of Dumfries. He concludes that the domes and simple 

 corals imbedded in the mud, just as we find in Atolls of the present seas, 

 plainly point to similar conditions to those now existing. The Arbigland Atoll 

 is said to be the first recorded of Carboniferous age. " The Carboniferous 

 Corals of Scotland," is a notice of Mr. Thomson's labours in the elucidation 

 of the fossil Corals of the Carboniferous period in Scotland ; it is accompanied 

 by fine figures of twelve corals, to show the results attained, by a process of his 

 own discovery, in figuring these organisms. The figures seem to leave nothing 

 to be desired in beauty and accuracy. 



Zoologist, Third Series, Vol. VII., 1883. " Late breeding of Swallows 

 and Martins in Kirkcudbrightshire," by Robert Service. " Nestling 

 Grey Plover from the Orkneys ; " query (on p. 179), by Rev. H. A. Mac- 

 pherson, respecting the authenticity of a specimen in the Hope Collection in 

 Oxford ; answered (on pp. 334, 335) by O. V. Aplin, that the specimen is 

 authentic, but is probably the young of the Lapwing, not of the Grey Plover. 

 "Grey Shrike and Waxwings in Aberdeenshire," by J. Whitaker, taken 

 in spring of this year. "Ornithological Notes from Skye," by Rev. Hugh 

 A. Macpherson, pp. 358-362. 



Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XX. , June to September, 1 833. (June) 

 — Annotated List of British Anthomyidse, by R. H. Meade (continued) ; 

 A new British Trichopteron (Mesophylax aspersus Ramb., var.), by J. J. 

 King, taken in Torqueer parish, Dumfries-shire, by Mr. Service. (July) — ■ 

 Notes on new British Coleoptera since 1871 (cont.), by Rev. W. W. 

 Fowler, treats of the Rhynchophora and Longicomia. (August) — The British 

 Species of Dicyphus, by Dr. O. M. Renter ; Annotated List of British 

 Anthomyiidse (cont.), by R. H. Meade. (September) — Natural History 

 of Endromis versicolor, by William Buckler; Occurrence of Argynn is 

 Euphrosyne in Sutherlandshire, by H. T. Stainton ; Note on Eudorea 

 murana in Sutherlandshire, by H. T. S. ; Scutigera (Cermatia) Co- 

 leoptrata near Aberdeen, by Thomas D. Gibson-Carmichael. In Sloney- 

 ivood paper works they have been established for over 25 years ana breed freely, prin- 

 cipally in warm moist rooms ; in the same note it is mentioned that Lithobius 

 variegatus A rwp. is common and generally distributed in the west of Scotland. 

 (October)— Annotated list of British Anthomyidse (concluded), by R. H. 

 Meade. (November) — Catocala Fraxini near Culross, by Alf. Beaumont. 

 Panorpa germanica, var. borealis (Leach) Steph., {at Tongue in Suther- 

 land). Elipsocus cyanops Rost., in Scotland (at Ailmuu), both by J. J. 

 King. Captures of Coleoptera near Pitlochry, by Alf. Beaumont. 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. XXXIX, 1883. (May) :— " On the Metamorphic and Overlying Rocks 

 in parts of Ross and Inverness Shires,''' by Henry Hicks, M.D. (pp. 141-159, 

 pt. VI.), relates to the district from Loch Maree southwards. Dr. Hicks sums 

 up as follows : — " The whole of the evidence obtained from these examinations 

 tends, therefore, to confirm the views maintained in my former paper, that the 

 crystalline schists of these areas must be all of pre-Cambrian age, and that 

 they are not the equivalents of the fossiliferous silurian rocks of the southern 

 Highlands and of Wales." Appendix to the preceding paper by Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, entitled " Note on the Lithological Characters of a Series of Scotch 

 Rocks Collected by Dr. Hicks, F.G.S." (pp. 159-166). (August) :— " The Age- 

 of the Newer Gneissic Rocks of the Northern Highlands," by G. Callaway, 

 D. Sc. (pp. 355-414), relates to the districts of Loch Broom, Assynt, and 



