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Kasteel (literally Castle)— 
A high peak or ridge, e.g., Riebeck’s Kasteel. 
Kloof- - 
The head of a valley, with steep sides. 
Kolk— 
A hole in a river course. 
Poortje— 
A little poort. 
Punl— 
(i) A point on the coast, or (ii) a spur of a mountain. 
Rug, plural Ruggen— 
A ridge or series of ridges. The ‘Ruggens,’ in Cape Colony, is a plain cut up 
by rivers. 
Investigation of the Fauna and Flora of the Trias of the British 
Isles.—Seventh Report of the Committee, consisting of Pro- 
fessor W. A. HerpMAN (Chairman), Mr. H. C. Brasiey 
(Acting Secretary), Mr. EK. T. Newton, Professor A. C. 
SewarpD, Mr. W. A. EK. Ussuer, Professor W. W. Watts, 
and Dr. A. SmMitrH Woopwarp. (Drawn up by the Acting 
Secretary.) 
[PLATES III. AnD IV.] 
In presenting this Report your Committee have first to express their 
deep sense of the loss sustained in the lamentable death of their Secre- 
tary, Mr. Joseph Lomas, F.G.S., to whom their successful working has 
been mainly due. To the enthusiasm of youth he added the judgment 
and experience of middle age, and to his friendly and genial disposition 
and unfailing readiness to help others we are indebted for the assistance 
of workers outside the Committee. His powers of observation and 
description, devoted as they were in recent years to the study of the 
Trias, more especially of the probable conditions under which it was 
formed, enabled him to contribute two Reports embodying results of 
his own work, and it was in the prosecution of such research as that 
your Committee was formed to promote that Mr. Lomas met his un- 
timely end. 
During the past year your Committee have watched for further op- 
portunities of research, but the new material has been confined to a few 
remains of Rhynchosaurus which, as far as examination has at present 
gone, present no exceptional features, and a few other remains which 
have been too recently obtained to be reported on at this meeting. 
Mr. A. R. Horwood gives a further instalment of his ‘ Bibliography 
of the Keuper,’ bringing it to 1908, and Mr. Beasley a description of 
a new form of footprint. Mr. Watson adds a description of the 
