024 Geological Society. — Miscellaneous. 



niOCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 

 (GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June 14th, 10-22.— Dr. G. T. Trior, F.K.S., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following communication was read : — 



'On some Rugose Corals from the Burindi Series (Lower 

 Carboniferous) of New South Wales.' B}'^ Prof. AVilliam Noel 

 Benson, B.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., and Stanley Smith, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.G.S. 



This paper describes two genera, one of which is new, and 

 includes observations concerning species of Litliostrotion from the 

 Burindi Series (New South Wales). The corals were obtained from 

 the western foothills of the New England Plateau, which occupies 

 the north-eastern portion of the country. 



The stratigraphical succession of the region is briefly discussed : 

 this consists mainly of Upper Paleozoic rocks — Devonian to 

 Permian. The Burindi Series is made up of olive-green mudstones 

 and tuffs, with occasional lenticular masses of oolitic and crinoidal 

 limestone ; and it was from these calcareous intercalations that the 

 corals were obtained. Reasons are stated for correlating the 

 Burindi Series with the Yisean. 



The corals described are related respectively to Cyafhopliyllnm 

 and LHhosfrotion. Both forms are characterized by an abnormally 

 large columella, analogous to that seen in Ci/atliaxonia. The 

 genera illustrate a remarkable case of parallelism. 



The species of Lithosirofion obtained from the Burindi Series 

 and from equivalent beds in Queensland share in common certain 

 small peculiarities of structure, which distinguish them as a group 

 from their British congeners. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the Dates of Cuvier, ' Le Bkjne Animal,' etc. (Disciples Edition). 

 By C. Da VIES Sherborn. 



The volume on Crustacea (VIII.) is absent in this set, and, as the 

 dates of publication are unknown to me, it was not possible to 

 include them in the list given in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (9) x. 

 pp. 555, 556 (1922). 



