1898] NEWS 435 
Tue Geologists’ Association, London, opened its session on Friday, November 
4th, 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 of the Association, P. Emary. Illustrations of the 
modes of occurrence of magnetic iron ore at Gellivara and other localities in Lap- 
land ; 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 H. 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. Salter. Remains of mammoth, red deer and Bos primigenius dredged 
from the Dogger Bank, as well as other interesting specimens ; by W. F. Gwinnell. 
A remarkable series of palaeolithic implements from West Wickham, Kent ; by 
A. 8. Kennard. Skiagrams of fossil starfish from the Devonian of Germany, said 
to show structures invisible on the surface of the stone, but the originals were not 
brought for comparison ; by Upfield Green. Specimens, drawings and plaster 
easts of Petalocrinus, the paddle-armed Silurian crinoid ; by F. A. Bather. A 
fine siluroid fish from late Tertiary oil-shales of Taubaté 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 Horne, 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. 
Tue 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 Magazine. 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 Heathfield flame, one of 
which appeared in Black and White. The photographic secretary reports that a 
set of seventy-eight lantern-slides illustrating the Greensand and Gault 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 8.E. England ; (ii) English wildflowers, with special reference 
