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Professor Boyd-Dawkins was elected President ; Mr. B. Hobson and 

 Mr. Winstanley, Vice-Presidents ; Mr. W. J. Hall, Secretary ; and 

 Mr, 0. B. Leigh, Treasurer ; and in addition Mr. C. R. Lindsey, 

 Mr. H. B. Hewlett, and Mr. G. Hickling were appointed members 

 of the Committee. 



The meetings are to take place monthly, during the University 

 Session, at the Owens College, and excursions will be arranged to 

 places of geological interest in the Spring and Summer. 



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THE LOWER CULM OF NORTH DEVON. 



SiE, — In the Geological Magazine, November, 1904, pp. 530-32, 

 appears a Note by Dr. Arthur Vaughan on the above beds. 



Never having worked in the Carboniferous Limestone areas of 

 Chepstow, etc., or the foreign equivalents referred to, I am unable 

 to express an opinion on the conclusions arrived at by Dr. Vaughan. 

 But I must take exception to the observations contained in the last 

 paragraph of p. 531 commencing "I further deduce," etc. 



The beds from which the fossils north-west of South Molton were 

 collected are the Posidonomya beds, and these fossils occur in 

 calcareous bands intercalated with the Posidonomya shales and 

 limestones. I cannot, therefore, accept the statement that these 

 beds are at a " somewhat lower level " than those of Codden Hill. 

 On the contrary, I believe them to be the continuation of the Venn 

 and Swimbridge beds and therefore above the highest zone of 

 Codden Hill. Dr. Vaughan admits that he is not personally 

 acquainted with the Codden Hill district. May I be allowed to 

 suggest that he makes himself so, when I think he will see that 

 an area such as this is not quite so easily ' zoned.' Or, at least, 

 that the question can hardly be decided on the evidence of a part 

 of the fauna only. It is a mistake, I think, to attempt such a thing 

 without taking into consideration the whole of the fossil evidence, 

 stratigraphy, and lithological character of the rocks. 



The locality from which the fossils referred to come, should be 

 described as south of North Aller not South Aller. This was an 

 error on the labels of my fossils and no fault of Dr. Vaughan's. 



J. G. Hamling. 



The Close, Barnstaple, 

 N'ovember 9th, 1904. 



CEPHALOPODA PEOM NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF INDIA. 



SiK, — In my " Note on two Cephalopods obtained by Lieut.-Col. 

 Skinner, E.A.M.C, from the Valley of the Tochi River on the 

 north-west frontier of India," which appeared in the Geological 

 Magazine for October last (pp. 490-493), the locality of the 

 Ammonoid {Crioceras?), as given in the explanation of the figures, 



