G28 Miscellaneous. 



The utility of the whole work has been much enhanced by the 

 alphabetical index which has been prepared by Dr. L. Friederichsen. 

 It is a laborious and most meritorious undertaking, extending over 

 48 columns, which will be of the greatest assistance in referring 

 to any of the 910 species of Pacific fishes described in the three 

 magnificent volumes. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 

 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 9th, 1910.— Prof. W. W. Watts, Sc.D., M.Sc, F.R.S., 



President, in the Chair. 



The following communication was read : — 



' Jurassic Plants from the Marske Quarry.' 

 By the Rev. George John Lane, F.G.S. 



The Marske quarry is situated on the northern side of the 

 Upleatham outlier in the Cleveland district of Yorkshire. It is 

 about 500 feet above sea-level. In the quarry several varieties of 

 rock are exposed, namely shales, small coal-seams, sandstones, and 

 a ferruginous bed. The beds are of Lower Oolite age, and belong to 

 the Lower Estuarine Series. As the Millepore Bed is absent in the 

 district, the Lower Estuarines and the Middle Estuarines may be 

 one continuous deposit. From this quarry Dictyozamites was 

 recorded for the first time in England, its occurrence being made 

 the subject of a paper presented by Prof. Seward to the Geological 

 Society in 1903. The writer has obtained nearly forty species 

 from the quarry, among which are many characteristic Wealden 

 plants. This discovery is most interesting, especially when one 

 considers the vast interval of time that elapsed between the 

 horizons of the Inferior Oolite and the Wealden. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Report of the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature. 



[We have received an advance copy of the Report of the Inter- 

 national Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (Graz meeting), 

 from which we reproduce the following as particularly interesting 

 to the readers of the ' Annals.' — Eds.] 



Financial Aid from the Smithsonian Institution. — Owing to the 

 amount of clerical work connected with the studies conducted by 

 the Commission, it has been found very difficult in the past for the 



