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filling the interior of fossil shells, especially the chambers of 

 Nautili. 



(10.) Dr. Duncan adds a note on the Echinodennata, Bivalve 

 Mollusca, &c., from the Cretaceous rocks of Sinai. The list shows 

 that thirteen out of twenty-four species are common to the North 

 Afiican and Siuaitic Cretaceous rocks, and that eight others are 

 well-known European forms. 



(11.) M. Charles Martins describes the evidence on which he 

 concludes that a Glacier during the Quarternary Period occupied 

 the Valley of Palheres, in the Lozere. 



At the Annual General Meeting of the Society, the President 

 (Professor T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S.), presented the Wollaston 

 Gold Medal to Henry Clifton Sorby, Esq., F.Pt.S., as a mark of the 

 Society's appreciation of his researches into the structure of rocks, 

 minerals, and meteorites, and the investigation of the phenomena 

 of Slaty Cleavage. He also handed the balance of the proceeds of 

 the Wollaston Donation Fund to William Carruthers, Esq., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. of the British Museum, in aid of his researches in Fossil 

 Botany, in which branch of study he has already added so much to 

 our knowledge. 



8. METEOEOLOGY. 



The Pilot Charts for the Atlantic, alluded to in our last number, are 

 the first instalment of a systematic series of representations of the 

 physical phenomena of the ocean which are promised by the Hydro- 

 graphic Office of the Admiralty. In the advertisement prefixed to 

 the work, Captain Eichards explains that, from their very nature, 

 these charts cannot be offered with the same confidence or authority 

 as the charts on which depend the safety of navigation. They are 

 in fact only intended to furnish hints to the seaman in shaping his 

 course. All available sources of information, both ]>ritish and 

 foreign, have been consulted in their preparation, so that the charts 

 may be fairly considered as a record of the present extent of our 

 knowledge of ocean meteorology, in the particulars of which they 

 treat. 



They consist of four wind-charts, corresponding to the dif- 

 ferent seasons, a current chart and an ice chart of the Southern 

 Hemisphere. 



On the wind-charts the percentages of prevailing winds are 

 represented by means of stars, for spaces varying in size from ten- 

 degree squares in the heart of the S.E. trade-wind to two-degree 

 squares off Cape Horn. The niunber of gales from each point per 

 month is also given, and on the coasts some useful practical remarks 



