192 Miscellaneous. 



order of succession of these subdivisions of the Lower Devonian was 

 rectified by Mr. TJssher in 1903 {Summary of Progress of the Geological 



Survei/ for 1902, p. 160). Thus the main subdivisions in the 

 Devonian rocks of South Devon and Cornwall introduced by 

 Mr. TJssher have been fully confirmed and adopted by the Geological 

 Survey. They are further shown on his Geological Map of Cornwall 

 in the Jubilee "Volume of the Geologists' Association, plate xxxii, 

 p. 896 (19 10). ' Reviewer. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Geology, at the Local Government Board. — Mr. J. B. Hill, F.G.S., 

 lias just been appointed to the newly-created post of Geological Adviser 

 to the Local Government Board. Mr. Hill joined the staff of the 

 Geological Survey in 1884, and after working among the intricate 

 schistose rocks of Argyllshire "vyas transferred in 1897 to Cornwall. 

 There he surveyed a large area in the neighbourhoods of Falmouth 

 and Truro, and established the pre-Dcvonian a^e of the Mylor, 

 Falmouth, and Portscatho Series. On completion of that work 

 Mr. Hill was called on to take part in the re-survey of the Midland 

 area, in the counties of Nottingham, Derby, and Stafford, gaining 

 experience among Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic rocks, as well 

 as Glacial Drifts. 



Presentation to Dr. Lazarus Fletcher, F.R.S. — The invaluable 

 services which Dr. Lazarus Fletcher, F.R.S., has rendered to the 

 Mineralogical Society during his twenty-one years' tenure of the 

 office of general secretary have been recognized by the pi-dentation 

 to him of his portrait painted by Mr. Gerald Festus Kelly, A.R.H.A. 

 The subscribers were, however, by no means confined to members of 

 the Society ; since Dr. Fletcher resigned his office upon his appoint- 

 ment to the post of Director of the Natural History Museum, many 

 others of his colleagues and friends took advantage of the opportunity 

 to evince the esteem in which they held him by joining in the move- 

 ment. Just before the anniversary meeting of the Society on 

 November 15 the portrait was presented to him by Professor W. J. 

 Lewis, F.R.S., president, on behalf of the subscribers. Later in the 

 evening Dr. Fletcher was entertained to dinner at the Cafe Monico, 

 Professor Lewis presiding, and in reply to the toast of his health, 

 proposed in fitting terms by Principal H. A. Miers, F.R.S. , delighted 

 liis hearers with a witty speech replete with the North Country 

 humour for which lie is noted among his friends. 



Kentish Nailbournes. — In the Morning Postoi February 6, 1911, it 

 is mentioned that the intermittent streams or nailbournes of Drellingore, 

 between Folkestone and Dover, the Lyminge stream, and the Petham 

 stream were then flowing, that they were also running last year, 

 and that "'there is no record of their having previously run two 

 years in succession ". This last remark does not apply to the Petham 

 stream, which on several occasions has been known to flow in 

 successive years, as recorded in Whitaker's Water Supply of Kent 

 (Mem. Geol. Survey, 1908), p. 59. In that work full particulars of 

 the nailbournes are given. 



