120 Geological Society. 



" the inferences of animals " are said to be " habitual and intelli- 

 gent, but not rational." 



Voice, language, and phonetic spelling, especially the advantages 

 of the last, are succinctly but clearly treated by Dr. A. B. Prowse. 



For Botany, Mr. J. W. White has " Notes Supplemental to the 

 Flora of the Bristol Coal-field," and Mr. C. Bucknell gives part xi. 

 of " The Fungi of the Bristol District." Mr. C. Jecks offers some 

 good suggestions as to the causes of the difference in the colour 

 between the flowers and foliage of Tropical and of Temperate regions. 



Local Geologists and others may well be thankful to Prof. C. Lloyd 

 Morgan for his elucidation of the Geology of Tytherington and 

 Grovesend, illustrated with a geological map and section along the 

 Yate-and-Thornbury branch railway from the Midland Railway on 

 its way to Gloucester. The Old Bed Sandstone, the Mountain 

 Limestone, and the Keuper beds constitute the country. Their 

 subdivisions are compared with the strata at Clifton and elsewhere, 

 and their faultings, discordances, and overlaps are carefully described 

 and made to account for some of the physical features of the surface. 

 Mr. T. M. Reade's work "On Mountain-building" is carefully and 

 favourably reviewed by the Bev. M. B. Saunders. 



Meteorological observations are given by Dr. G. F. Burder and 

 Mr. D. Bintoul. 



The Engineers have three excellent and most interesting 

 papers : — on Sewage Systems, very fully and thoughtfully, by Mr. 

 A. P. I. Cotterell ; on the loading, delivery, and warehousing of 

 Grain in all their details, by Mr. J. M. McCurrich ; and Mr. G. E. 

 Crawford's short but most noteworthy and technical explanation of 

 the height, foundations, materials, shape, stability, and utility of 

 the Eiffel Tower. 



Thus at least five of the several branches of Scientific Research 

 have received attention at Bristol, and some considerable increase 

 of facts, generalizations, and practical application, during the past 

 year ; and doubtless these published papers and abstracts will be 

 not only useful as memoranda, but will be good and fertile seed in 

 further cultivation of the several fields of knowledge to which they 

 belong. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 6, 1889.— W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Contributions to our Knowledge of the Dinosaurs of the 

 Wealden and the Sauropterygians of the Purbeck and Oxford Clay." 

 By R. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



Tbe first section of this paper was devoted to the description of 



