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you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill 

 in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages 

 of formulfe will not get a definite result out of loose data." 



The most important papers contained in the 'Journal of 

 Proceedings' are Mr. T. W. Kingsmill's communication on the 

 Geology of China, especially with reference to the Province of the 

 Lower Yangtse; Prof. Huxley's paper "On the genus Hypero- 

 dapedo7i," a reptile found in the Triassic deposits of Elgin (once 

 said to be of Devonian age). From remains found of late in 

 Warwickshire and Devonshire the author has determined its 

 Lacertilian character, and considers its nearest fossil ally to be the 

 Triassic genus Bhyncliosaurus, and at the present day the singular 

 genus Sphenodon, or Hatteria, found in New Zealand. 



Mr. Edward Hull has an ingenious and suggestive paper " On 

 the Evidence of a Kidge of Lower Carboniferous Piocks crossmg the 

 Plain of Cheshire beneath the Trias, and forming the Boundary 

 between the Permian Eocks of the Lancashire Type on the North, 

 and those of the Salopian Type on the South." 



The Kev. T. Wiltshire, " On the Hunstanton Ked Chalk," adds 

 to our knowledge of this interesting local deposit, which from all the 

 evidence, both lithological and palseontological, appears to be the 

 representative at Hunstanton of the upper portion of the Gault of 

 Folkestone. 



The other papers are : Messrs. King and Eowney " On the 

 eo-called ' Eozoonal' Eock ;" Mr. Whitaker " On the New Locality 

 for Eyperodapedon on the coast of Devon ; " Mr. W. H. Daily 

 " On the Irish Graptolites " and " On Tertiary Plant-remains from 

 Antrim;" Mr. G. T. Clark "On the Basalt Dykes of India;" 

 Dr. Sutherland "On the Auriferous Eocks of South-eastern 

 Africa;" Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins "On the Distribution of the 

 British Post-Glacial JMammals ; " and a postponed paper by Mr. J. 

 Wood Mason " On Dakosaurus, from the Kimmeridge Clay of 

 Shotover Hill." 



8. METEOEOLOGY. 



Ik a recent part of the Proceedings of the Meteorological Society 

 there is a very suggestive paper by Mr. IMeldrum, contaiumg some 

 interesting results as to the origin of cyclones in general, to which 

 he has been led by his study of the weather of the Indian Ocean. 

 In our last number we noticed the Synoptic weather charts which 

 Mr. Meldrum is preparing for publication. The examination of 

 these charts affords abundant confii'mation of an idea which he has 

 long entertained, and which is traceable in many of his papers, viz. 



