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as twenty-three species, including many of the common and widely- 
spread European and American species, together with a few which 
have not yet been noticed from other parts of the world, and which 
indicate that the Carboniferous rocks of Thibet, Kashmere, and the 
Punjab belong to one great formation. From the very scanty notes 
now published we presume that Captain Godwin-Austen’s researches 
are as yet incomplete, as the abstracts of his communications to the 
Society already published led us to expect a much more complete 
memoir. We shall therefore defer examining the questions sug- 
guested by the facts already given, until we have the author’s own 
interpretation of them before us. 
At the Anniversary Meeting of the Society, held on February 
16th, the Wollaston Gold Medal was awarded to Sir Charles Lyell, 
Bart., D.C.L., F.BS., F.G.8., &., in recognition of the highly 
important services he has rendered to the study of Geology by his 
various original works, and for the masterly and philosophic manner 
in which he has treated the subject, both in developing the prin- 
ciples and in expounding the elements on which the science is 
founded ; and the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation 
Fund to Mr. Henry Woodward, F.G.8., F.Z.8., to assist him in 
carrying on his researches on the Fossil Crustacea. 
MINING, MINERALOGY, AND METALLURGY. 
Tue depressed state of metal mining in this country still continues. 
The causes which were named in the Chronicles of our last 
number are still in operation, nor does there appear any immediate 
prospect of improvement. The continuance of the war between 
Spain and Chili, and the declaration of war by Peru, must neces- 
sarily in a little time increase considerably the price of copper, and 
consequently the value of British copper ores. The copper miners 
of this country may therefore calculate ere long on receiving some 
returns to compensate them for the losses to which they have been 
exposed for some years. A very unfortunate, though happily an 
unusual, contest has sprung up between the copper miners and the 
managers of the Great Devon Consolidated Copper Mines, and some 
other mines in the neighbourhood. Angry feelings were so far 
shown, that it was felt necessary to call in the aid of the military. 
The questions—those of wages and time—are now, it is hoped, in 
progress of settlement by arbitration. 
Lord Kinnaird has again brought his Metalliferous Mines Bill 
before the House of Lords. It has been considerably modified from 
the bill which his Lordship withdrew last session. Sir George 
Grey stated, in reply to a question asked in the House of Commons, 
that the Government intended to bring forward a bill for the better 
regulation of metalliferous mines. 
