340 REPORT— 1900. 



Exploration of Irish Caves. — Interim Report of the Committee, con- 

 sisting of Br. R. F. ScHARFF (Chairman), Mr. E. Lloyd Praeger 

 (Secretary), Mr. G. Coffey, Professor Grenville Cole, Professor 

 D. J. Cunningham, Mr. A. McHenry, and Mr. R. J. Ussher. 



Owing to various circumstances, especially illness of some of the 

 members, the Committee were unable during the past year to commence 

 the exploration of the caves in the west of Ireland. These caves promise 

 to yield satisfactory results, and the Committee recommend that they 

 should be reappointed, with a renewed grant of 20/. 



Life-zones in the British Carhoniferous Rocks. — Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Mr. J. E. Marr (Chairman), Dr. Wheelton 

 Hind (Secretary), Mr. F. A. Bather, Mr. G. C. Crick, Mr. 

 A. H. FooRD, Mr. H. Fox, Mr. E. J. Garwood, Dr. G. J. Hinde, 

 Professor P. F. Kendall, Mr. J. W. Kirkby, Mr. R. Kidston, 

 Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Professor G. A. Lebour, the late Mr. G. H. 

 Morton, Mr. B. N. Peach, Mv. A. Strahan, and Dr. H. Wood- 

 '\\'ARD. (Braivn up Inj the Secretary .) 



It is to be regretted that since the meeting at Dover no individual 

 reports have been received from members of the Committee, and that the 

 lamellibranchs collected at Eccup only have been examined and named. 



The Secretary suggests that the most important points to settle are 

 the faunas of (a) the beds which occur between the Millstone Grits and 

 the Massif of Limestone in the South Pennine area, and (b) the fauna 

 which occur in the shales between the Millstone Grits and the upper beds 

 Limestone in the North Pennine area. This would settle at once the 

 correlation of Pendleside Limestone and its equivalent in the Yoredale 

 series of Wensleydale. 



Mr. B. jN". Peach has been at work on the faunas of the Calciferous 

 Sandstone series of Fife, and it is hoped that a full detailed report will 

 be received next year. It would be well if a grant could be made to 

 employ a collector to woi'k the shales of Pendle Hill, and if possible in 

 Swale and Teesdalc. 



The Committee regret to report the loss, )jy death, of two of their 

 number — the late Professor AUeyne Nicholson and G. H. Morton. Mr. 

 Morton was an ardent worker at Carboniferous geology, and had 

 specially confined his attention to North Wales ; a full list of Carboni- 

 ferous fossils from this district was to have been prepared by him this 

 year. 



APPENDIX. 



Interim Report hy Dr. Wheelton Hind. 



In the ' Geological Magazine,' 1898, Dec. IV. vol. v. pp. 61-69, I gave 

 a brief sketch of what was known of the Life Zones of the Carboniferous 

 deposits of Europe, and at p. 68 showed the following table, which 

 represented the main results of my inN-estigatious up to that date. 



