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in a bluish- grey marly shale from Lau in Gothland, corresponding with 

 the Wenlock Shale of England. They will be figured and described in 

 the ' Geological Magazine ' before long as Emmelozoe Lindstroemi. 



2. In the ' Sitzungsberichte konigl. Bohmisch Gesellsch. Wiss., Math.- 

 nat. 01.' for 1894, article xxxvi. (separate copy dated 1894), Professor 

 Dr. Anton Fritsch, in a preliminary report on the Arthropoda and 

 MoUusca of the Permian formation in Bohemia, enumerates five species 

 of Estheria, partly noticed in our Tenth Report, 1893, namely, (1) Estheria 

 triangxdaris, Fr. (= .? E. tenella in his 'Fauna der Gaskohle,' vol. i., 

 p. 3l), with remains of the animal, from the Gas-coal of Nyian ; 

 (2) E. cyanea, Fr., from the Black-coal of Kounova ; (3) E. |)rtZ«?o- 

 niscorum, Fr., covering whole beds in the Brandschiefer (Carbonaceous 

 Shale) of KOStialov ; some individuals show the large antennae ; 

 (4) E. calcarea, Fr., related to E. ininuta ; rare, in the red Plattenkalk 

 of the Braunau district ; (5) E. ultima, Fr., in the uppermost part of 

 the limestone with Amhlyj)terus Feistmanteli, near Vitouchov, not far 

 from Lomnitz. There are also Candona elongata, Goldenberg, from 

 the red limestone of Kiecowic, near Rowensko (Turnau) ; and Carbonia 

 Salteriana, Jones and Kirkby, in the red limestone of Stradonic, near 

 Peruc ; and Cythere, sp., in the red limestone of Klobuk, near Schlan. 



Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland. — Twenty-second 

 Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors E. HuLL (Chair- 

 man), J. Prestwich, W. Boyd Dawkins, T. McK. Hughes, 

 T. G. Bonney, Messrs. 0. E. De Range, P. F. Kendall (Secre- 

 tary), R. H. Tiddeman, J. W. Woodall, and Prof. L. 0. Miall. 

 (Draiun up by the Secretary.) 



[Read at Oxford, 1894.] 



The investigations of the Committee during the past year have yielded 

 results of more than ordinary interest, though the amount of information 

 to be embodied in their report is less than has been available during the 

 previous two or three years. 



A hope was expressed in the twenty-first Report that, as the result of 

 an appeal made to the Corresponding Societies, information would be 

 forthcoming regarding the Erratic Blocks of districts fiom which hitherto 

 no returns had been sent in. This expectation has been realised ; and 

 the Committee, for the first time in their history, are now enabled to j ustify 

 the reference to Ireland in the terms of their appointment. In response to 

 the circular issued by this Committee to the Corresponding Societies, the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club promptly organised a committee to inves- 

 tigate the Erratic Blocks of the north-east of Ireland ; and the first 

 report, drawn up by the Honorary Secretary, Miss Sydney M. Thompson, 

 and printed in the Proceedings of the Club (1893-94), is a valuable 

 record of minute painstaking and accurate investigation. The Com- 

 mittee have not limited their work to merely recording the erratics, 

 but have made a complete study of the Drift deposits, and their organic 

 and other contents, at several selected exposures, and have trans- 

 mitted to this Committee a series of twenty photographs illustrating the 

 features described. Lincolnshire is also added to the list of English 

 counties coming within the sphere of the actual operations of the Com- 



