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paper from a woman because she has the misfortune to be a woman, 

 but while accepting her work, most Societies refuse to allow her to 

 be present to hear it read. The Zoological Society's principle and 

 practice on the subject are inconsistent : the former admits women as 

 Fellows, " with the same privileges, and under the same regulations 

 in all respects as gentlemen," but while the rules admit women the 

 doorkeeper excludes them from the meetings ! The Geologists' 

 Association still maintains its lead in this matter, for it has this 

 year elected a woman, whose work ranks high, a Vice-President. 

 The Geological Society, however, still refuses women the Fellow- 

 ship, though it is reported hy Research (vol. i., 1889, p. 216) that when 

 the subject was last discussed, the reform was only lost by four votes; 

 and, but for the over-confident zeal of the women's advocates, who 

 refused any compromise on the lines suggested above, it would, 

 doubtless, have been carried. 



The Geology of the Bas Boulonnais has received very full des- 

 cription from M. E. Rigaux (Mem. de la Societe Academiqne de Botilogne, 

 vol. xiv., 1892). The strata exposed at the surface include Devonian, 

 Carboniferous Limestone, and Coal-measures. Unconformably 

 resting on these are various Jurassic strata, the Great Oolite and 

 Cornbrash, Oxfordian, Corallian, Kimeridgian and Portlandian strata, 

 and then the Purbeck-Wealden. Resting indifferently on Secondary 

 and Palaeozoic rocks are representatives of Lower Greensand and 

 Gault (Aptian and Albian). The author describes the strata in detail, 

 and records the fossils from each horizon, so that interesting com- 

 parisons can be made with the strata in this and other countries. 

 Some new species of Brachiopoda and Mollusca are described. 



We hear that it is possible that a botanist and geologist may 

 accompany the Eclipse Expedition up the Salum River next April. 

 The evidence for the Cretaceous age of the rocks at Cape Verde 

 does not seem very satisfactory, while nothing is known of the place 

 in the Palaeozoic sequence of the older rocks that are supposed to 

 cover a wide extent of country in the Gambia " Hinterland." A 

 very important contribution to the geology of Eastern Africa has 

 just been issued in the last volume of the Denkschrift der Wiener 

 Akademie der Wissenschaft of which we hope to say more next month. 



The last number (594) of the Abstracts of Proceedings of the Geological 

 Society, contains the result of Professor Seeley's labours on the 

 Saurischia of Europe and Africa. These bird-like reptiles are 

 described as " terrestrial unguiculate ornithomorpha," and the paper 

 discusses the various genera, and their relations and peculiarities. 

 In the discussion which followed, the President, Mr. W. H. Hudleston, 

 remarked " that the paper on Saurischia was received by the officers 



