FAUNAL SUCCESSION IN THE LOWER CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE. 187 
Faunal Succession in the Lower Carboniferous Limestone 
(Avonian) of the British Isles—Report of the Committee, 
consisting of Professor J. W. GREGORY (Chairman), Dr. A. 
VAUGHAN (Secretary), Dr. WHEELTON HIND, and Professor 
W. W. WATTS, appointed to enable Dr. A. VAUGHAN to con- 
tinue his Researches thereon. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
Report by Dr. A. Vaughan on his work during the year 1908-09 :— 
South-Western Province—Gower. 
The paper by Mr. E. E. L. Dixon, B.Sc., F.G.S., and myself on the 
‘Carboniferous Limestone of the Gower Peninsula’ is finished, and 
awaits publication. 
South-Western Province—Burrington Comb (Mendip). 
A detailed account of this important section—already sketched out, in 
its broad faunal features, by Dr. T. F. Sibly, F.G.S.—is in preparation 
by Prof. 8. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S., and myself. The paper will 
include a full account of the various rock-species, zoned views of the 
section, and a minute exposition of the coral sequence in the Tournaisian. 
The Bernician Sequence of Northumberland. By Svanuey Smiru, 
M.Sc., F.G.S. 
I have devoted a small portion of the grant to preparing and photo- 
graphing a few important coral groups which characterise the uppermost 
division (‘ Yoredales ’) of the Limestone in the Northern Areas (the level 
indexed D, in the accompanying tables). Mr. Smith has kindly pro- 
mised to insert these figures in his forthcoming paper in order to 
demonstrate the progression of the coral fauna upon that of D. in the 
§.-W. Province. 
County Dublin—Malahide. 
The description and illustration of the Tournaisian Beds of this fine 
coast section will be the subject of a paper by Dr. C. A. Matley, F.G.S., 
and myself in the coming year. 
Under the guidance of, and with the assistance of, Prof. G. Delépine, 
of the Catholic Univer sity of Lille, I hope to devote the summer vacation 
of this year to an examination of the Belgian sequence, and to an exact 
correlation of the divisions recognised by Belgian geologists with the 
Avonian zones. For this purpose I hope that this Committee and grant 
will be continued for yet another (and final) year. 
