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urgently needed. This has now been supplied by the Curator. Mr. 

 F. W. Budler; but the original form has been somewhat modified, 

 the work is now " A Handbook," it has been revised throughout, and 

 in large part rewritten, and the type is larger. It deals with the 

 history of the Museum, and gives a particular account of the Building 

 and Ornamental Stones, Slates, Grindstones, Cements, and Minerals, 

 with general references to the Pottery, Fossils, etc. Regarded 

 as a handbook of economic geology, it will prove exceedingly 

 useful for reference in the study as well as in the Museum. The 

 price is 6d. 



Geology in the Transvaal, Sooth Africa. — Dr. Molengraaff, 

 of Amsterdam, has been appointed State Geologist by the 

 Transvaal Government. 



Geological Survey of Great Britain. — The Annual Eeport 

 of the Director-General of the Geological Survey for 1895 was 

 issued early in April, and as it contains a full record of the 

 progress of the Survey in various parts of England, Wales, the 

 Isle of Man, Scotland, and Ireland, the subject-matter will interest 

 all geologists. 



Spitzbergen. — Sir W. Martin Conway is about to start for Spitz- 

 bergen, accompanied by Mr. Trevor Batty e, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 

 F.G.S., of the British Museum, Mr. E. J. Garwood, F.G.S., and 

 several other gentlemen, to make a geographical and geological 

 exploration of that island during the summer months. Dr. Gregory 

 will undertake the geological work, and Sir Martin Conway the 

 geographical part of the expedition, which has received the support 

 of both the Boyal Society and the Boyal Geographical Society ; and 

 there is every prospect of good results in valuable observations 

 and specimens, to be brought home in October. Although Spitz- 

 bergen possesses a remarkably rich fossil fauna and flora, representing 

 Miocene or Eocene, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, Carboniferous, 

 and Devonian formations, none of the fossils have as yet found 

 their way to this country ; but several Continental museums have 

 been enriched by acquisitions from this high northern land. 



Glides to the Fossil Mammals and Birds and to the Fossil 

 Beptiles and Fishes in the Department of Geology and Palaeon- 

 tology in the British Museum. — The seventh edition of these popular 

 guides has just been issued (price sixpence each). They have 

 been carefully revised and corrected, and the part relating to the 

 Fossil Fishes has been entirely rewritten by Mr. Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, F.G.S. 



The Guide to the Fossil Invertebrata and Plants, etc., is 

 now in the press, and will shortly be issued. 



A Catalogue of the Jurassic Bryozoa in the British Museum, 

 by Dr. J. W. Gregory, F.G.S. , has just been printed by order of 

 the Trustees, and will appear in the next few weeks. 



