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the International Committee, and a provisional Report was laid before 
the International Congress. Unfortunately neither Dr. Waagen nor 
Dr. Bather were able to attend the Congress in Toronto, and up to the 
date of writing they have received no official communication from the 
officers of the Congress. It is, however, understood that the Congress 
can grant no subyention to aid the work. 
The situation, therefore, may be thus summarised:—The Inter- 
national Congress has appointed a Committee to produce a laborious and 
costly work of undoubted value to all interested in Geology and the 
allied sciences. There are no funds for this purpose. The details 
of the scheme, even if decided on at the Congress, are not yet known 
to the present Committee of the Association. 
Consequently your Committee has been unable to take any steps, 
although some of its members have made note of stratigraphical names 
observed in the course of their ordinary work, and are prepared to 
continue this practice and eventually to place such material at the 
disposal of the International Committee. Your Committee is, however, 
well aware that the search for names must be conducted systematically, 
and it considers that funds will be needed to pay searchers and com- 
pilers. A grant is not asked for at present, merely because it is not yet 
possible to draw up a plan of operations. 
The fact that this Report will be presented to the Association when 
meeting in Australia leads your Committee to point out that it has 
been appointed to consider names used in the British Isles, and that 
no provision has yet been made for the other constituents of the British 
Empire. As regards India, indeed, the work has been accomplished by 
Sir Thomas Holland and Mr, G. H. Tipper in their ‘ Indian Geological 
Terminology.’+ But it is desirable that other Committees should be 
formed, and the present occasion seems appropriate for the establish- 
ment of one to deal with Australasia. Any such Committees would 
communicate directly with Dr. L. Waagen (K.k. geolog. Reichsanstalt, 
Wien). 
Your Committee asks for its reappointment, for the present without 
a grant. 
Fauna and Flora of the Trias of the Western Midlands.—Report 
of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. Barrow (Chairman), 
Mr. L. J. Witts (Secretary), Dr. J. HumpHreys, Mr. W. 
CAMPBELL SMITH, Mr. D. M. 8. Watson, and Prof. W. W. 
WATTS. 
Tu1s Committee regrets that cwing to the early date at which the 
report has to be submitted this year, very slight progress has been 
made with the digging operations in Warwickshire and Worcestershire. 
Some hundred and more specimens have been obtained from the 
Arden Sandstone at Shelfield, near Alcester, and Hunt End, near 
1 Mem. Geol. Surv, India, vol xliii., Part 1, 1913. 
