434 Dr. Wheelton Hind — British Carboniferous Goniatites. 



President of the Council, will have the following constitution : — 

 Chairman: Sir Richard Redmayue, representing the United King- 

 dom; and the following memhers: Dr. Willet G. Miller, representing 

 Canada; Mr. W. S. Robinson, Australia; Mr. T. Hutchinson 

 Hamer, New Zealand ; The Rt. Hon. W. P. Schreiner, the 

 Union of South Africa; The Rt. Hon. Lord Morris, Newfoundland; 

 Mr. R. D. Oldham, India; Dr. J. W. Evans, Crown Colonies; 

 Mr. W. Forster Brown (Mineral Advisor to HiM. Woods and 

 Forests) ; Professor H. C. H. Carpenter (President of the Institute 

 of Metals) ; Dr. F. H. Hatch (Member of the Mineral Resources 

 Advisory Committee of the Imperial Institute and Past President of 

 the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy) ; Sir Lionel Phillips 

 (late Director of the Mineral Resources Development Department, 

 Ministry of Munitions) ; Mr. Edgar Taylor (of John Taylor & Son, 

 and late President of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy) ; 

 Mr. Wallace Thorneycroft (President of the Institution of Mining 

 Engineers). Mr. Arnold D. McNair is Secretary, and the offices of 

 the Bureau are for the present at the Holborn Viaduct Hotel, E.C. 



Some department such as this has long been needed, and it is to 

 be hoped that the new body will fulfil the expectations that have 

 been aroused by its appointment, and that its functions will not be 

 restricted to the collection and dissemination of information, but 

 that it will also institute such researches as may appear desirable as 

 to the occurrence of important but little-known minerals, both in 

 this country and in the Colonies. The exigences of the War have 

 •shown how important for the welfare of the State the discovery of 

 new sources of such minerals may become; examples will occur to 

 everyone. In the present war the cutting off of overseas supplies 

 has necessitated the search for and development of home resources of 

 manganese, wolfram, iion pyrites, phosphates, petroleum, etc. This 

 country has been well served in the past by its purely scientific 

 institutions, but the economic side has been unduly neglected. We 

 wish the Bureau a successful career in the important work assigned 

 to it. 



cd:eixg-xi<t.a.il. .a.k,ticleis. 



I. — On the Distkibution of the British Carboniferous 



GONIATITES, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ONE NeW GeNUS AND SOME 



New Species. 



By Wheelton Hind, M.D., B.S., F.E.C.S., F.G.S. 

 (PLATE XVI.) 



PART III of the Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.), by A. H. Foord and G. C. Crick, was 

 published in 1897. Since then much fresh material has come into 

 my hands and it is now possible to give much more accurate and 

 fuller details of the horizons and localities at which the various 

 species occur. This is of special importance, in view of the fact that 

 the Goniatites can be used as zone indices of the Carboniferous Series 

 from the upper part of the Lihiinopliyllum beds (Dg of Dr. Vaughan) 



