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of the former seem also to be perforate. The new genus is dis- 

 tinguished from Syringocnema by the presence of irregular septa, 

 and so can be compared with Pycnoidocyatlms and 8pir6cyathus of 

 Taylor ; its mode of growth seems to be essentially the same as that 

 of the Ai'cheeocyathinEe. These specimens are described and figured 

 in "Notes on Fossils from Limestone of Steeprock Lake, Ontario" 

 (Appendix to Memoir jS'o. 28, Geol. Survey Canada, 1912). 



VIII. — Brief Notices. 



1. Mkteoric Stone from Kansas. — A second meteoric stone has 

 been found in Scott County, Kansas, and this forms the subject of 

 a paper bj^ Dr. Greorge P. Merrill (Proc. U.S. National Museum, 

 No. 1905, vol. xlii, pp. 295-6, with pi. xxxix, 1912). It is a wedge- 

 shaped fragment weighing 1,900 grams, and it has a fracture so 

 recent that it is scarcely coated by a fused crust. The specimen, 

 which is to be known as the Scott City stone, is chondritie, and the 

 microscopic chondrules are of the usual olivine-pja'oxene type, but 

 nothing that could be with certainty identified as a felspar was 

 observed. 



2. Waverltan Period of Tennessee. — The formations that are 

 grouped under this period are in ascending order the Chattanooga, 

 Kinderhookian, and Osagian, and they belong to the lower part of 

 the sub- Carboniferous or Mississippiau strata. The palseontological 

 and stratigraphical relations of the formations are discussed by 

 Mr. Eay S. Bassler (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xli, p. 209, 1911). 



3. Yariscite from Utah. — In the same Proceedings (1912, p. 413) 

 Mr. W. T. Schaller describes specimens of well- crystallized variscite 

 from near Lucin in Utah. The mineral is found in a hard brecciated 

 cherty or chalcedonic quartz-rock, which contains inclusions of 

 nodules and streaks of limestone. It is a hydrous aluminium phosphate 

 with traces of vanadium, chromium, and iron oxides, and it occurs 

 in balls, nodules, and irregular masses in the chert. In colour the 

 variscite ranges from a very pale green to a bright grass green. Grems 

 are cut from it for pendants, brooches, pins, etc., but the stones are 

 not adapted for rough wear. 



4. Mining in South Australia. — A review of mining operations 

 in South Australia during the half-year ended December 31, 1911, 

 has been compiled by Mr. Lionel C. E. Gee, Chief Pegistrar of the 

 Department of Mines. The mining operations, in order of importance, 

 relate to copper, gold, salt, silver-lead, and other minerals, including 

 phosphate, gypsum, pyrites, hsematite, wolfram, ^nd uranium-ore. 



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The Great Flood at Norwich. 



Our readers will have learnt from the newspapers of the great 

 calamity which has befallen the city of Norwich and large areas 

 of Norfolk. 



In November, 1878, disastrous floods occurred at Norwich after 

 sixteen continuously rainy days, with some snow, when 4 '50 inches 



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