210 REPORT— 1902. 



Registration of Type Specimens of British Fossils. — Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Dr. H. Woodward (Chairman), Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward (Secretary), Kev. G. F. Whidborne, Mr. E. Kidston, 

 Professor H. G. Seeley, Mr. H. Woods, and Eev. J. F. Blake. 



l)URlNG the past year an important list of the type specimens of 

 fossils in the Norwich Museum has been published by Mr. Frank Leney, 

 assistant curator. It was first issued in the ' Geological Magazine ' for 

 April and May 1902, and subsequently reprinted as a pamphlet with a 

 preface by Dr. Henry Woodward. 



Life-zones in the British Garhoniferous Bochs. — Report of the Com- 

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

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

 A. H. Foord, Mr. H. Fox, Professor E. J. Garwood, Dr. G. J. 

 HiNDE, Professor P. F. Kendall, Mr. R. Kidston, Mr. G. W. 

 Lamplugh, Professor G. A. Lebour, Mr. B. N. Peach, Mr. A. 

 Strahan, and Dr. H. Woodward. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 



Collecting has been carried on during the last year by Mr. D. Tait, of 

 the Geological Survey, who kindly devoted his holiday to that purpose, 

 and by Mr. J. T. Stobbs, F.G.S., lecturer on mining under the Stafford- 

 shire County Council. The Committee are to be congratulated on being 

 able to obtain the help of such trained and skilled collectors. 



Mr. Tait collected from the Black Limestones and shales resting on 

 the white shelly Limestone at Poolvash, Isle of Man, where he redis- 

 covered the plant-beds mentioned by Cumming in his work on the Isle of 

 Man. He then worked in the beds of the same horizon in the Valley of 

 the Hodder, near Stoneyhurst, and also in the neighbourhood of Flasby, 

 Yorkshire. 



Mr. Stobbs has confined his attention to the dark shales and Lime- 

 stones resting on the white shelly Limestone in the Valley of the Noe, and 

 at Mam Tor, near Castleton. 



Most of the Cephalopoda have been submitted to Dr. A. H. Foord, and 

 the plants have been sent to Mr. Kidston. 



I have also collected and examined collections from certain horizons 

 in Weardale, Redesdale, and Edendale, and while on an excursion with 

 the Geologists' Association examined the beds and fauna of the Bishopton 

 beds which succeed the Limestone Massif of Gower, lists of which I include 

 in my report. I am indebted to my friend Dr. Wellburn for notes on 

 the fish fauna of the Pendleside series. 



I have recently had the privilege of examining, at the invitation of 

 M. Dupont, of the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle of Brussels, a large collec- 

 tion of rock specimens and fossils which were obtained by Mr. Purvis when 

 mapping the district round Clavier, a little north-east of Dinant. Some 

 few outliers of yellowish and dark shales, black Limestones, cherts, and 

 quartzites are found near Clavier (Explication de la Feuille de Clavier, 

 Service de la Carte geologique du Royaume, 1883), which appear to me 

 identical in character with rocks found in the Pendleside series. The 



