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CONTENTS. IX 



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 Position, Height above the Sea, Lithological Characters, Size, and Origin of 

 the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters 

 of interest connected with the same, and taking measures for their preserva- 

 tion. (Drawn up hy Dr. Crossket, Secretary) 267 



Thii-d Keport of the Committee, consisting of Dr. IIenet Woodwaed (Chair- 

 man), Eev. G. F. Whidboe>^e, and Messrs. E. Kidston, J. E. Mare, and 

 A. S. Woodwaed (Secretary), to consider the best methods for the Eegis- 

 tration of the Type Specimens of British Fossils. (Drawn up by A. S. 

 Woodwaed) 289 



Third Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Professor James Geikie (Chair- 

 man), Dr. Tempest Andeeson, Dr. Valentine Ball, Mr. James E. Bed- 

 ford, Professor T. G. Bonnet, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, Mr. James W. 

 Davis, Mr. Edmund J. Garwood, Mr. William Grat, INIr. Eobeet Kids- 

 TON, Mr. Arthur S. Eeid, Mr. E. H. Tiddeman, Mr. W. AV. Waits, Mr. 

 Horace B.Woodward, and Mr. Osmund W. Jeffs (Secretary), to arrange 

 for the collection, pre.servation, and systematic registration of Photogiaphs 

 of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom. (Drawn up by the Secre- 

 tary) 



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Ninth Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Profe,=sor T. Wiltshire (Chair- 

 man), Dr. H. Woodward, and Professor T. Eupeet Jones (Secretary), on 

 the Fossil Phyllopoda of the Palaeozoic Eocks. (Drawn up by Professor T. 

 EuPERT Jones) 298 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Dr. H. Woodward, Mr. G. E. Vine 

 (Secretary), Professor T. Eupeet Jones, and Dr. H. C. Soebt, appointed for 

 the completion of a report on the Cretaceous Polyzoa. (Drawn up by the 

 Secretary) 301 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Messrs. H. B.aueeman, F. W. Eudler, 

 and J. J. H. Teall and Dr. II. J. Johnston-Lavis, appointed for the in- 

 vestigation of the Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius and its Neighbourhood. 

 (Drawn up by Dr. Johnston-Lavis) 338 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G J. Stmons, Mr. C. Davison 

 (Secretary), Sir F. J. IBeamwell, Mr. E. A. Cowpee, Professor G. H. 

 Darwin," Professor J. A. Ewing, Mr. Isaac Eoberts, Mr. Thomas Gray, 

 Sir John Evans, Professors J. Prestwich, E. Hull, G. A. Leboue, E. 

 Meedola, and J. W. Judd, Mr. M. Walton Brown, and Mr. J. Glaisher, 

 appointed to consider the advisability and possibility of establishing in 

 other parts of the country observations upon the prevalence of Earth Tremors 

 similar to those now being made in Durham in connection with coal-mine 

 explosions 343 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Dr. P. L. Sclater, Professor Eay 

 Laneester, Professor Cossar Ewart, Professor M. Foster, Mr. A. 

 Sedgwick, Professor A. M. Marshall, and Mr. Percy Sladen (Secre- 

 tary), to appoint Mr. Willey to investigate the Morphology of the Ascidians 

 at "the Zoological Station at Naples, or, failing this, to appoint some other 

 competent investigator to carry on a definite piece of work at the Zoological 

 Station at Naples approved by the Council 344 



Fifth Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Dr. P. L. Sclater (Chairman), 

 Mr. George Mueray (Secretary). Mr. W. Oarruthees, Dr. A. C. L. G. 

 GuNTHER, Dr. D. Sharp, Mr. F. DuCane Godman, Professor A. Newton, 

 and Dr. D. H. Scott, appointed for the purpose of reporting on the present 

 state of our knowledge of the Zoology and Botany of the West India Islands, 

 and taking steps to investigate ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna and 

 Flora 363 



