842 REPORT— 1900. 



Further work has convinced me of the correctness of these main zonal 

 divisions, and observations on the subdivision of the lower part of Zone 3 

 are approaching to some degree of exactness. 



With regai-d to the subdivision of group 4 I am in hopes that 

 Edmondia sulcata and Allorisma monensis may be found to indicate an 

 horizon in Zone 4 ; but as yet these fossils have not been found in the 

 South Pennine area. 



I consider interesting the discovery of CypricardeUa rectangidaris, 

 C. Anna-, Niicidania atfenuata, Ctenodonta sinnosa, and other shells in 

 shale above the Underset Limestone, nine standards near Kirk by Stephen, 

 and a very similar fauna at the same horizon on Wild Boar Fell. C. 

 rectamjularis with an identical fauna is found to be common in the Lower 

 Limestone. Series of Strathavon and the Upper Limestone series of 

 Orchard near Glasgow : — a full description of the section and position of 

 the fossiliferous beds was published at p. 358 in Part IV. of my mono- 

 gi'aph on ' British Carboniferous Lamellibranchs,' 1899. 



Jieqislration of Ti/pe Specimens of British Fossils. — Beport of the 

 ' Committee, consisting of Dr. H. Woodward (Chairman), Eev. G. 

 F. Whidborne, Mr. R. Kidston, Professor H. G. Seeley, Mr. H. 

 Woods, a.nd Dr. A. iS. Woodward (Secretanj). 



PuBiNG the past year the Committee have received a list of type-fossils in 

 the Norwich Museum, compiled by INIr. Frank Leney. The Museum of 

 Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, has published a first instalment of a 

 list of the type-fossils contained in its collections (' Type Specimens of 

 Eocene and Oligocene Fossils,' by H. A. Allen, appended to the Annual 

 Report of the Geological Survey of Great Britain for 1899). 



Ossiferous Caves at Vphill. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Professor Lloyd Morgan {Chairman), H. Bolton (Secretary), 

 Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, Professor S. H. Reynolds, and 

 E. T. Newton. 



The excavation work of last year was continued until the approach of 

 winter, by which time the lower caves were worked out, nothing new 

 being added to the discoveries reported to the Association at the Dover 

 meeting. 



The caves were found to lie along the bedding planes of the limestone, 

 and had clearly formed part of a subterranean drainage system, the 

 material in them being derived presumably from caves on higher levels. 



Systematic search has been made for caves of habitation higher up the 

 hill, but hitherto with no success. 



Work has therefore been arrested. It is hoped to secure a visit and 

 report from Professor Boyd Dawkins before further exploratory work is 

 commenced. 



The Committee have, up to the present, incurred an expenditure of 

 451. 14s. 2c?., 30?. of which has been met by the grant made in 1898 ^t 

 Bristol. 



