226 Reviews — Flora of the Alum Bluff Formation. 



plants and one marine alga, of which, only four species were previously 

 known. The list includes one fern, one equiseturn, four conifers, 

 and six angiosperms, all save one represented by fragmentary 

 impressions. The abundance of the alga, Ualymenites major, 

 Lesq., is an interesting feature, "countless thousands of specimens" 

 being noted. A specimen of this added to the excellent illustrations 

 would have made this first "Flora" of the Fox Hill Sandstones 

 more complete, and more useful for those who are unprovided with 

 the illustrations of the species first published in 1878. 



XIV. — The Physical Conditions and Age indicated by the Flora 

 of the Alum Bluff Formation. By E. W. Berry. U.S.A. 

 Geological Survey, Prof. Paper 98-E, pp. 41-53, pis. vii-x. 1916. 



fMHE Alum Bluff formation consists of marls and sands, of 

 X interest to palaeobotanists because it represents practically the 

 only horizon with a flora of uppermost Oligocene or basal Miocene in 

 North America. Dr. Berry describes thirteen species, of which one 

 is a fungus, one a Monocotyledon, and eleven are Dicotyledons. All 

 are represented by fragmentary impressions, difficult to collect and 

 preserve. Dr. Berry describes his method of embedding them in 

 fresh plaster on the spot, by which means they survived the trans- 

 portation to his laboratory. The most abundant species is the 

 Monocotyledon, a palm, described as a new species of Sabalites. The 

 flora is considered to be either Aquitanian or Burdigalian, " with 

 a slight preponderance of the evidence in favour of the Aquitanian." 



REPORTS -A-ITnTID PROCEEDHSTGS. 



I. — The Pal^ontographical Society. 



Annual General Meeting. 



March 30, 1917.— Dr. Henrv Woodward, F.K.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



The Society having been founded on March 23, 1847, this was the 

 seventieth anniversary. The annual report stated that the volume 

 of monographs was again delayed by the circumstances of the time, 

 but there was no lack of offers of palseontological work for publica- 

 tion, and it was expected that the forthcoming volume for 1916 

 would contain instalments of the monographs of Pliocene Mollusca, 

 Palaeozoic Asterozoa, Cambrian Trilobites, British Graptolites, and 

 "Wealden and Purbeck Fishes. Among members who had died 

 during the year, Mr. C. T. Clough, Mr. Bedford McNeill, Mr. Clement 

 Reid, and Miss A. F. Yule were specially mentioned. They were 

 all valued supporters of the Society, and Mr. Clement Beid had 

 done service on the Council. New members were much needed to 

 replace the losses, and the Council appealed especially for the more 

 active sympathy of the various Field Clubs and Natural History 

 Societies. 



Mr. H. A. Allen, Mr. E. Heron- Allen, Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, 

 and Mr. C. T. Trechmann were elected new members of Council : 



