338 Geological Progress. 
in Geological Science, and become in the future some of the 
most celebrated of our metropolitan magnates. 
As a young society, we cannot but speak in the highest 
terms of the Geologist’s Association. Hach report of their pro- 
ceedings shows a step in the right direction—onwards. In the 
last number, Mr. W. Hislop contributes three papers on Micro- 
scopic Geology (illustrated by a plate), in which he gives a very 
good account of the wonderful range in time and space of those 
minute organisms, the Diatomacee and Foraminifera, which 
contribute so largely to make up the entire thickness of some 
of the most extensive formations throughout the world. 
The Dudley and Midland and the Manchester Geological 
Societies number amongst their members such able Geologists, 
and so many who are practical miners also, that their meetings 
generally produce material of considerable value. We, how- 
ever, deprecate very strongly the use of ‘ slang’ expressions by 
gentlemen when lecturing on Geology, and especially so when 
there is an equally liberal number of quotations from Scripture, 
neither of which are needed to introduce Mr. Henry Beckett's 
very excellent paper ‘ On the South Staffordshire Coal-field.’* 
The Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field-club contains, among 
other contributions, an article by Mr. R. Etheridge, Pale- 
ontologist to the Geological Survey, ‘ On the Rhetic or 
Avicula contorta Beds at Garden Cliff, Westbury,’ illustrated. 
by a carefully prepared coloured section. 
There is also a paper by Dr. Wright ‘On the Ammonites of 
the Lias Formation,’ accompanied by two well-executed quarto 
plates by Mr. J. W. Salter, F.G.S. The undertaking of such 
a work as a series of quarto plates of the Oolitic Ammonites, 
four of which have already appeared, displays an amount of 
spirit on the part of the Cotteswold Club which is highly com- 
mendable: we, however, fear much inconvenience will arise - 
from the text and plates being of two sizes (8vo. and 4to.). 
A very interesting feature of progress is the establishment 
of a Geological Society at Norwich under the presidency of the 
Rev. John Gunn, F.G.S., who for upwards of thirty years has 
devoted himself to the geology of. his native county, especially 
with reference to the mammalian remains from the Forest-bed 
at Hasbro’, the complete examination of which was one of the 
unfulfilled labours of the late Dr. Falconer. We are informed 
that it is Professor Owen’s intention to take up the investiga- 
* See Trans. Dudley and Midland Geological Society, No. 5, vol. 1i., February 
1865. 
t See Gzuox. Mac., Vol. I. p. 237; Report of Mr. Bristow’s paper on the Rheetie 
Beds, read before the Brit. Assoc, 1865 (with section). 
