384 Reports & Proceedings — Britislt Association. 



Attached here and there to the top of the JWiirchisoncB-Ancolioceras 

 beds is ironshot rock, doubtless of late bradfordensis date — the date 

 of the Rhynchonella ring em beds of the Sherborne district. Thicker 

 deposits may be present at Dinnington and Haselbury Plncknett. 

 Deposits of concavi, discitce, and, in places, of blagdeni hemerse may 

 also be present in the neighbourhood of Dinnington. 



There is thus a great hiatus in the Inferior Oolite Series of the 

 Crewkerne district, there being — except possibly in the neighbourhood 

 of Dinnington — no rock present assignable to any hemera between 

 those of bradfordensis and garantiance — the latter the date of the wide- 

 spreading Upper Trigonia Grit of the Cotteswolds. 



The rock of garantiance date varies considerably in lithic characters, 

 thickness, and abundance of organic remains in the district. 



It has not been possible to identify definitely the Truellei bed in 

 the district. The main of the Top Limestones is of schlcenbachi date. 

 The Schlcenbachi beds ''attenuate" east of Crewkerne; but at 

 Haselbury Mill Quarry, in what the author regards as their lower 

 portion, is a very interesting Sponge Bed, similar in appearance to 

 that exposed in the Peashill Quarry, Shipton Gorge (Dorset). This 

 Sponge Bed is rich in microscopic organisms. The Zigzag bed (very 

 similar in its equivalent in the Burton-Bradstock — Beaminster- 

 Broadwindsor district) has been observed at North Perrott and 

 Haselbury Mill Quarry. 



The Scroff (fuscce hemera) was apparently observed by J. F. 

 Walker in a quarry near Misterton Church. Pullers' Earth Clay 

 succeeds the Scroff. 



II. — British Association foe the Advancement of Science. 



After consultation with members of H.M. Government and with 

 the local authorities at Bournemouth the Annual Meeting of the 

 British Association, which was to have been held at Bournemouth this 

 year, has been cancelled ; but the General Committee met in the 

 Booms of the Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, 

 on Friday, July 6, at 12 noon, and received the Iteport of the Council, 

 and elected Officers of the Association and Members of the Council. 



Meetings of the organizing committees of the various sections, the 

 delegates of corresponding societies, the committee of recommendations, 

 and the general committee have therefore been held. It has been 

 decided to continue Sir Arthur Evans in the presidency for another 

 year, while Sir C. A. Parsons, who would have presided over this 

 year's meeting, will do so at the meeting which it is hoped will take 

 place as arranged at Cardiff next year. The meeting this year would 

 have been at Bournemouth, and that borough hasrepeated its invitation, 

 which has been accepted, for 1919. Grants amounting to £286 were 

 made in aid of such researches as wei'e regarded as essential to carry 

 on, having regard to present conditions. The new members of the 

 Council of the Association are Dr. E. F. Armstrong, Mr. J. H. Jeans, 

 Professor A. Keith, Professor W. H. Perkin, and Mr. W. Whitaker — 

 From the English Mechanic, July 20, 1917. 



