380 Reports & Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 



comprised in the following families : Carabidse, Coccinellida?, 

 Buprestidae, Sampyridse, Malachiidse, Ptinidae, Spondylidae, Cerarn- 

 bycidse, Bruchidse, Otiorhynchidae, and Curculionidae. 



III. — The Zoological Record, vol. lii, for 1915, has recently appeared 

 and contains as usual papers on fossil as well as recent zoology. The 

 volume for 1916 is in hand, and may be expected this time next 

 year. The book is thinner than usual owing to the dearth of work 

 and the difficulty of obtaining that from enemy countries. It is on 

 sale, in the special parts, at the Zoological Society of London. 



IV. — William Smith : his Maps and Memoirs. 



11HE story of William Smith, "the Father of English Geology " 

 as he was styled by Professor Sedgwick long ago, has been told 

 by his nephew, the late Professor John Phillips, by H. Woodward, 

 Professor J. W. Judd, Mr. Sheppard, and many others (see Geol. 

 Mag., 1869, 1870, 1873, 1877, 1892. 1897, etc.). Mr. Sheppard has 

 recently described his maps (see Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. in Gkol. 

 Mag., July, 1917, pp. 330-1). JSTow some 200 pages and 17 plates 

 are issued in the Proc. Geol. Soc. Yorkshire for March, 1917. 

 In this elaborate and carefully prepared work, Mr. T. Sheppard 

 presents, in a graphic manner, Smith's career, his special work in 

 Yorkshire, the history of maps, personal memorials, "claims" now 

 first made public, and several of his manuscript memoirs. Besides 

 this the author discusses earlier work on mapping by Owen, Lister, 

 Strachey, Woodward, Desmarest,Pache, Michel, Whitehurst,Smeaton, 

 the Board of Agriculture, Jamieson, Parkinson, and all Smith's maps 

 in detail, so a fairly comprehensive view of this subject is unfolded. 

 The illustrations are admirably selected for their purpose, and the 

 paper (published at 5,s.) should be in the hands of every geologist. 



EBPOETS .A-HSTID PBOCEBDI1TG-S. 



I. — Geological Society of London. 

 June 20, 1917.— Dr. Alfred Harker, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. "The Pre-Cambrian and Associated Bocks of the District of 

 Mozambique." By Arthur Holmes, A.K.C.S., D.I.C., B.Sc, F.G.S. 



Beyond the coastal and volcanic beds of Mozambique (described in 

 a previous contribution — Abs. Proc. Geol. Soc. 1916, No. 994, p. 72) 

 the country assumes the form of a gently undulating plateau, 

 gradually rising towards the west and diversified by innumerable 

 inselberg peaks and abruptly rising clusters of hills. The dominant 

 rock throughout is a grey biotite-gneiss. Interfoliated with this 

 are occasional lenticular masses of hornblende-gneiss and amphibolite, 

 and within these smaller bands of crystalline limestone are sometimes 

 preserved. In many places the gneisses become garnetifei'ous, while 

 eclogites and basic granulites also occur. Schists — referable to 

 arenaceous sediments — are found only near the coast, where they are 



