528 Miscellaneous. 
AWARD OF THE Keith Gotp Merpat or tHE Royat Socrery or 
Epinzurex To Dr. Wueetton Hinp, F.R.C.S., F.G.S.—At a meeting 
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on July 18 last, under the 
presidency of Dr. R. H. Traquair, the Keith Gold Medal was presented 
to Dr. Wheelton Hind for a paper on ‘‘The Lamellibranch and 
Gasteropod Fauna of the Millstone Grit of Scotland”. The fossils, - 
said Dr. Traquair, forming the subject of this research were placed in 
the hands of Dr. Hind for determination by the Geological Survey. 
They were found by Mr. Tait in certain marine bands in the basal 
portion of the Millstone Grit, charged with Lamellibranchs, 
Brachiopods, and Gasteropods, and associated with Lower Carboniferous 
species of plants. They have been collected from the counties of 
Midlothian, West Lothian, Lanark, and Stirling, their horizon being 
not far below the line which has been drawn between the Upper and 
Lower Carboniferous floras in accordance with the determinations 
of Dr. Kidston. The remarkable feature of this research is the 
recognition in the Scottish collection of a Lamellibranch fauna, of 
which quite 50 per cent. of the species are new to Europe, and which 
closely resembles the Lamellibranch fauna of the Coal-measures of 
Nebraska and Illinois in North America. The most striking member 
of the fauna is the shell Prothyris elegans, Meek, this being the first 
occurrence of the genus in the Carboniferous rocks of Great Britain. 
Dr. Hind’s researches show that it is impossible to distinguish any 
characters sufficient to separate the Scottish and American species 
from each other. He has demonstrated that the Gasteropods in 
this collection bear a strong relation to those of North America, 
several species being regarded as identical. He has also noted 
that the Brachiopods belong to a late period of Carboniferous time. 
In addition to his valuable researches in the Molluscan fauna of the 
Carboniferous Series in Great Britain, Dr. Wheelton Hind, who has 
been a Volunteer officer for many years, was two years since asked to 
raise a Battery of heavy artillery for the Territorials. This he 
succeeded in doing, and under command of Major Wheelton Hind on 
Dartmoor his company this year carried off the King’s prize for heavy 
batteries, both for firing and drill. 
Swiney Lecrurrs on Grotogy.—A course of twelve lectures will 
be delivered by T. J. Jehu, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.E., on the Coasts of 
Great Britain and Ireland, in the Lecture Theatre of the Victoria 
and Albert Museum, South Kensington, on Mondays and Tuesdays 
at 5 p.m. and Saturdays at 3 p.m., beginning on Saturday, 
November 5, at 3 o’clock. The lectures will be illustrated by 
lantern slides, and admission to the course will be free. Lecture I. 
Introductory. II. Recent Changes in the Relative Levels of Land 
and Sea. III. Movements of the Sea—The Foreshore. IV. The 
Coastline. V. Erosion and Accretion. VI. Sands and Sand-dunes. 
VII. The Fauna and Flora of the Coastline. VIII. The Coast 
of Scotland. IX. The East Coast of England (Tweed to Thames). 
X. The South Coast of England (Thames to Cornwall). XI. The 
Coast of the West of England and Wales. XII. The Coast of 
Ireland. 
