326 Geological Society. 



A few slips have been noticed in looking through the pages, as 

 Tulipa CeUiana (p. 178) for Celsiana, Alexander Brown (p, HI) for 

 Braun ; on page 67 a given figure, E, is assigned to two different 

 authors; on page 102 " nearhj amooboid parasites " should, of course, 

 be merely, and S)jnchitrium decipiens. Fries, appears as " discipens " 

 (p. 37), &c. 



Dr. Margaret Ferguson's paper is given up to a detailed account of 

 her researches on a topic on which she has already published good 

 work. The different scale of the two works now under notice may 

 bo gauged by the fact that here 141 pages are devoted to what is 

 compressed into less than fi pages of Dr. Mottier's paper. 



In both the modern slipshod method of reference to literature is 

 employed, namely, that of giving the author and an abbreviation 

 for the year, as ('01) for 1901. It is a real grievance that if these 

 references are to be checked the page is not supplied also, for the 

 plan here followed is that of flinging a bulky paper at the reader 

 and bidding him discover for himself where the statement cited is to 

 be found. It is this easy writing that makes hard reading, and 

 those who have been trained in an older and perhaps more careful 

 school, revolt at this offhand method, now too much in vogue. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 November 9th, 1904.— J. E. Marr, Sc.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, in exhibiting, by permission of the Director 

 of H.M. Geological Survey, a specimen of FayoUa near to Fai/olia 

 f/randis, found by Dr. L. Moysey of Nottingham in the Coal- 

 Measures of Ilkeston (Derbyshire), pointed out that FayoUa was 

 first described by Profs. Renault & Zeiller in 1884, in their 

 monograph on the ' Houiller de Commcntry.' In 1894 Mr. Seward 

 described the first British specimen, from Northumberland, in the 

 Leeds ' Naturalist,' but thought that it was not a plant. There 

 was some resemblance to certain spiral egg-cases of Elasmo- 

 branchs ; but Dr. Giinther was unwilling to accept the Northum- 

 berland fossil as the egg-case of a fish. IMr. Kidston had not yet 

 seen the specimen now exhibited ; but, from a sketch, he recognized 

 its relation to FayoUa. At present, there was still uncertainty as 

 to the exact nature of this fossil. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' Notes on Upper Jurassic Ammonites, with Special Reference 

 to Specimens in the University Museum, Oxford : II.' By 

 Miss Maud Healey. 



This paper gives a redescription of the types of Cardiocerns 

 vertebrale^ Sow., C, scarbrugense, Y. & B., C. cordatum, Sow., and 



