1893] NEWS 435 



The Geologists 5 Association, London, opened its session on Friday, November 

 itli, with a remarkably successful conversazione in the Library at University 

 College. The following were among the numerous exhibits : — Specimens illus- 

 trating the artificial production of the structure of gneissose rocks by the defor- 

 mation of heterogeneous masses of clay, and photographs of similar structures in 

 the gneissose rocks of the Lizard Peninsula ; by the president, J. J. H. Teall. A 

 fine series of Russian and Indian ammonites ; by Prof. J. F. Blake. Specimens 

 and micro-sections of rocks collected in Russia during the visit of the International 

 Congress ; by the secretary »{ the Association, P. Emary. Illustrations of the 

 modes of occurrence of magnetic iron ore at Gellivara and other localities in Lap- 

 laud ; by D. A. Louis. Apatite and associated rocks from Canada ; by Rev. Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney. Granites and gneisses from the Vosges and Switzerland ; by Miss 

 C. A. Raisin. A beautiful set of photomicrographs of recent and fossil foramini- 

 fera ; by II. W. Burrows and R. Holland. Collections of pebbles illustrating the 

 constitution and sources of origin of high-level gravels in S. and E. of England ; 

 by A. E. Salhr. Remains of mammoth, red deer and Bos primitjenius dredged 

 from the Dogger Bank, as well as other interesting specimens ; by W. F. Gwinnell. 

 A remarkable -cries of palaeolithic implements from West Wickham, Kent ; by 

 A. S. Kennard. Skiagrams of fossil starfish from the Devonian of Germany, said 

 to -how structures invisible on the surface of the stone, but the originals were not 

 brought for comparison ; by Upheld Green. Sj:>ecimens, drawings and plaster 

 casts of Petalocn'nus, the paddle-armed Silurian crinoid ; by F. A. Bather. A 

 fine siluroid fish from late Tertiary oil-shales of Taubate in the Province of Sao 

 Paulo, Brazil ; by J. N. Tervet. Jaws of a new dinosaur found by J. David in the 

 Rhaetic of Glamorganshire, which jaws, we are told, will speedily chaw up cer- 

 tain guesses of an eminent palaeoherpetologist ; by E. T. Newton. Sir Archibald 

 Geikie exhibited some of the new survey maps, in which many improvements 

 have been made possible by the improved topography of the new ordnance maps ; 

 also beautiful collotype plates which will illustrate the forthcoming memoir on 

 the Silurian rocks of Scotland, by Peach and Home, with petrographical notes by 

 Teall. Many other exhibits and an enthusiastic crowd bore witness to the energy 

 of this useful Association, and of its secretary, Mr Emary, whose address is 12 

 Alwyne Square, Canonbury, London, N. 



The Society for the Protection of Birds announces that it has now a number 

 of beautiful lantern-slides ready to lend to any of its members who may be able 

 to arrange for an illustrated lecture on birds and their protection. Application 

 for these should be made direct to the Secretary, 326 High Holborn, London, W.C. 



The Report and Transactions of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Socie- 

 ties containing the proceedings at the Third Annual Congress held at Croydon, 

 June 2nd, 3rd and 4th 1898, is to hand. It contains : — Places of meeting and 

 presidents, officers for 1898-9, rules, list of affiliated societies with names of 

 delegates, secretaries, &c, report of delegates' meeting, secretary's report, balance 

 sheet, photographic secretary's report, lantern-slide scheme, postal magazine club, 

 reception and exhibits, botanical research committee, referees, annual address, 

 and the various papers read before the Congress. We have already given the 

 titles of these, and have published two of them ; the paper on Dene-holes, by C. 

 Dawson, has also been published in the Geological M<nj<i:iiie. This should surely 

 have been mentioned in the report. Here, however, Mr Dawson's paper on 

 Natural Gas is embellished by two illustrations of the lleathlield Maine, one of 



which appeared in Black and WTvite. The photographic secretary report- that a 

 sel of seventy-eight lantern-slides illustrating the (Ireensand and ( Jault has been 

 got together, and may be borrowed by members, along with a written lecture on 

 the subject by H. E. Turner. It is proposed to form new sets dealing with (i) 

 Prehistoric man in S.E. Kngland ; (ii English wild flowers, with special reference 



