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inasmuch as the author has continued his work on the same lines 
and with the same success as in his first part. It is very pleasant 
to record our satisfaction that, roughly speaking, about one third 
of this flora is now in the hands of the public, and there is every 
reason to suppose that it will be finished in a reasonable time 
from now. It is easy to see how much the author’s labours have 
been eased by the preliminary results achieved by Sir Joseph Hooker 
and his co-workers in the pioneer work, the ‘Flora of British 
India,’ but it is none the less gratifying that such good use has 
been made of these preliminary studies by Dr. T. Cooke. 
We notice a few names make their appearance here for the first 
time ; in Part II. these are Vitis Woodrowi, Stapf, and Flemingia 
nilgiriensis, Wight, with Indigofera Dalzellii, Eleiotis trifoliolata, and 
Phaseolus Dalzellii, for which the author is responsible. In 
Part ILI. we have noticed only two, they being Kalanchoe Bhider 
and Plectronia Wightir. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
May 27th, 1903.—Edwin Tulley Newton, Esq., F.R.S., 
Vice-President; in the Chair. 
The following communication was read :— 
‘Two Toarcian Ammonites.’ 
By 8. 8. Buckman, Esgq., F.G.S. 
Two ammonites, belonging to the family Hildoceratide, found by 
members of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field-Club, are described 
and named. The allies of both species have been figured in the 
‘Monograph of Inferior-Oolite Ammonites.’ One is near to Denck- 
mannia torquata, but the degenerative change begins at an earlier 
age, and it soon shows marked decline of ornament of which that 
species gives little information. Its date of existence is probably 
hemera Variabilis. The other is a platygyral costate degenerative 
of Chartonia binodata; the inner whorls should be the morphic 
representations of that species, the outer whorls show a costate 
stage which is the general rule of decline from a tuberculate stage. 
Notes are given explaining the technical terms employed, 
