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9. Tue Gortanpian or Fyrepat.—Professors J. E. Moberg and 
K. A. Gronwall have contributed to Meddelande frin Lunds Geo- 
logiska Faltklubb (ser. B, No. 3, 1909) a paper on the Gotlandian of 
Fyledal. ‘he beds are rich in the genus Bellerophon, and contain 
numerous ostracoda of a familiar type to those who work in similar 
English deposits. ‘Thus of nineteen forms described seven or eight are 
identical with those recorded from the Upper Silurian of England by 
Jones and others. 
10. New Zeratanp Geotocicat Survey.—From the geology of the 
Whangaroa subdivision, Hokianga division, by J. M. Bell and 
HK. de C. Clarke (Bull. N.Z. Geol. Surv., No. 8, 1909) we learn that 
the beds exposed in their area are pre-Cretaceous, late Mesozoic, 
Eocene, Miocene, and recent, with much intrusive and other igneous 
rock of doubtful age. Fossils are found of Cretaceous age, but they 
are imperfectly preserved and difficult to clean owing to the hardness 
of the matrix. They include Zrigonia, Desmoceras, Hamites, Ostrea, 
and Oxyrhina, and these are said to be insufficient, even with other 
fragmentary remains, to allow of correlation with the other New 
Zealand Mesozoic beds. ‘The igneous series are described in much 
detail, and numerous micro-sections of the rocks are given. The 
economic geology includes notes on cupriferous sulphides, mercury 
ores, precious metals, iron, manganese oxides, kauri-gum, oil, 
building and cement stones, mineral waters, and sulphur. A list 
of minerals met with, and a glossary of scientific and mining terms 
used in the report, are appended. 
11. A Fosstz Horss in Sourm Arrica.—Dr. R. Broom, among several 
Reptilian papers in the Annals of the South African Museum (vol. vii, 
pt. 11, April, 1909), calls attention to the evidence in favour of the 
existence of an extinct horse in South Africa. Three specimens have 
now been found, and the last ‘‘makes it pretty certain that a very 
large horse was a native of South Africa before European occupation ’’. 
In a slab of the coast-limestone cast ashore at Yzerplaatz is the 
greater part of the lower jaw of a large horse. This he now calls 
Equus capensis. he third premolar shows no trace of the rudimentary 
protostylid as compared with that of the modern horse. Teeth of 
a horse were described by Fraas from South Africa in 1908, and 
on May 11, 1909, Professor Ridgeway showed a portion of the fossil 
jaw of one of the Equide from Naivastra, German East Africa, to the 
Zoological Society of London. 
12. Fosstn VeRTEBRATES OF THE Karroo, Soura Arrica.—In the 
same number of the Annals of the South African Museum, Dr. Broom 
makes an attempt to determine the horizons of the fossil vertebrates 
of the Karroo. In drawing up the table he has ignored types. 
founded on vertebre or fragments of skeletons, as most of these 
are probably portions of animals already known from their skulls. 
18. Disrripurion or Iron Ores in Eeypr.—Dr. Fraser Hume 
discusses the Distribution of Iron Ores in Egypt, in Survey Department 
Paper No. 20 (Ministry of Finance, Egypt, 1909). Southern Sinai, the 
N.E. and 8.E. deserts, the oases, the ferruginous beds in the Nubian 
