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the excavated areas, of taking not more than 50 per cent of the coal, 

 etc. Numerous diagrams and pictorial views are given. 



VII. — Brief Notices. 



1. Geological Survey of the Tkansvaal. — We have received a copy 

 of the excellent colour-printed geological map of portions of Marico 

 and Rustenburg districts in the Transvaal Province, Sheet 9, issued by 

 the Union of South Africa, Mines Department. The map is accompanied 

 by a short memoir by Dr. W. A. Humphrey, entitled The Geology of 

 the country lying northwards from Zeerust (Pretoria, 1911, pp. 27). 

 The oldest rocks, igneous and sedimentary, belong to the Ventersdorp 

 System, but occupy only a small area ; the Bush veld Plutonic Complex 

 (diabase, norite, and pyroxenite) and rocks of the Transvaal System 

 occupy the greater part of the area, together with a small tract of 

 quartzites, sandstones, and conglomerate belonging to the Waterberg 

 System. 



2. National Museum, Melbourne. — No. 4 of the Memoirs of this 

 Museum (1912) contains a description and figures of a new Pecten 

 (P. pr(ZCiirsor) from the Tertiary (Barwonian) of Southern Australia, 

 by Mr. F. Chapman; also "Notes on a Collection of Tertiary 

 Limestones and their fossil contents, from King Island", by the 

 same author. In this article remains of a parasitic boring organism, 

 probably a fungus, are described under the name Palmachlya tuherosa ; 

 other species described, and most of them figured, belong to marine 

 Algse, Foraminifera, Alcyonaria, Echinodermata, Chsetopoda, Polyzoa, 

 Brachiopoda, and Mollusca. The evidence of the fossils leads 

 Mr. Chapman to regard the limestones as belonging to the Janjukian 

 ■division. 



3. Glacial Man. — A well-written review of the evidence relating 

 to this subject has been contributed by Mr. E,. S. Lull, Professor of' 

 Vertebrate Palaeontology at Yale University {Yale Revieio, April, 1912). 

 He refers to the Heidelberg man, as the most ancient known in the 

 Old World, and the remains having been found in association with 

 Elephas etruscus might be regarded as Pre-Glacial or Pliocene. 

 Professor Lull comments also on the finding in the same layer of 

 eoliths, "implements of the crudest workmanship, if indeed their 

 apparent fashioning is not merely the result of use." In the New 

 World no human bones "of generally accepted geologic antiquity 

 are known ". 



Geological Societz of London. 



May 15, 1912.— Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



The specimens (boring cores) exhibited included Silurian from 

 Ware and Cliffe ; Silurian or older rock from Harwich and Culford ; 



