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spite of this Leptodora hyalina, Daphnia jardinii, and Bosmina coi'egoni were taken. 

 The two latter do not appear to have been recorded from this district before. 



Several members of the Union prolonged their visit over the Bank Holiday, 

 and were able to make a more exhaustive search in certain areas with good results. 



The hospitality and generosity of the Ellesmere people were unlimited, and 

 afforded striking evidence of the capacity of a small local society. 



During the weekending August 11 the members of the Geologists' Association 

 visited Shropshire on their long excursion, under the direction of Professor Lapworth 

 and Mr. W. W. Watts. The headquarters during the whole visit were at Shrews- 

 bury. On Sunday, July 29, many of the members visited the Breidden Hills. 

 During the rest of the week the programme was as follows : — Monday, Visit to the 

 Wrekin, under the direction of Dr. Callaway ; Tuesday, Visit to the Longmynd with 

 Professor Blake ; Wednesday, the eastern portion of the Shelve area, under the 

 direction of Messrs. Lapworth and Watts, who were also the leaders on the following 

 day, when it was arranged to visit the more westerly parts of the same district and 

 to see the laccolite of the Corndon. Unfortunately heavy rain delayed the start, so 

 that the former part of the programme had to be omitted. On Friday the famous 

 Onny Section was examined, under the guidance of Professor Lapworth and Rev. 

 J. D. La Touche. On Saturday morning the May.)r of Shrewsbury received the 

 members at the Museum, which is of considerable interest. Later in the day 

 Buildwas Abbey and the Severn Gorge at Coalbrookdale were visited, and the 

 excursion brought to a close. 



A valuable pamphlet on the " Geology of Southern Shropshire," by Lapworth 

 and Watts, was issued to the members, and will shortly be published in the 

 Proceedinos of the Association. 



While we are finding coal and ironstone at Dover, and while Professor Boyd- 

 Dawkins is advocating a search for coal in Oxfordshire, arguments similar to ihcse 

 employed by English geologists for England have led the geologists of New South 

 Wales to the discovery of coal under Cremorne in Sydney Harbour. Of late years 

 the existence of coal under Sydney has been regarded by local geologists as almost a 

 certainty, the only divergence of opinion being about the depth at which it was likely 

 to occur. A seam of coal has now been found by boring in the above locality, at a 

 depth of 2,801 and 2,917 feet, which varies in thickness from 7 feet 3^ inches to 

 10 feet 3 inches, and contains only minute bands of shale. The coal is good and 

 especially suitable for steaming purposes. An account of the various borings is 

 given by Messrs. T. W. E. David and E. F. Pittman in the Records of the Geological 

 Survey of New South Wales, vol. iv., pp. 1-7. 



At a meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales on June 27, Mr. 

 Hedley exhibited the shelly tubes of Kuphus arenarius, collected by Mr. Brazier on a 

 coral reef at Florida Island, Solomon Islands. As the affinities of this animal are 

 somewhat problematical, visitors to the Solomons should endeavour to procure it. 



Prince Henri d'Orleaxs arrived at Tamatave some weeks ago, and proceeded 

 north to the place where Mr. Muller, the French explorer in Madagascar, met his 

 fate a few months ago. 



The library of Professor Carl Vogt, of Geneva, has been purchased by the 

 Government of Roumania. 



Mr. Frank Finn, M.A., F.Z.S., has been appointed First Assistant-Curator in 

 the Zoological Department of the Indian Museum at Calcutta. 



Dr. Henri Filhol has been nominated to the chair of Comparative Anatomy 

 at the Natural History Museum, Paris, lately vacated by the death of Mr. Georges 

 Pouchet. 



