330 Reports & Proceedings—The Royal Society. 
REPORTS AND PROCHEHDIN GS. 
I.—Tue Royat Socrery. 
June 1, 1916.—Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M., President, in the Chair. 
A paper was read by Mr. E. A. N. Arber, Sc.D., ‘‘On the Fossil 
Floras of the Coal Measures of South Staffordshire.”” (Communicated 
by Professor McKenny Hughes, F.R.S.) 
A flora of fifty-eight species is described from a new horizon in 
South Staffordshire, the Red Clay series or Old Hill Marls of 
Transition Coal-measure age. A new genus Calamophlotos and new 
species of Sphenopterits and Cardiocarpus are described, as well as 
several records new to this horizon. 
Ten new records are added to the known flora of the Productive 
Series (Middle Coal-measures), including new species of Calamites and 
Leprdostrobus. A large number of additional records from new 
localities or horizons are added in respect te fossils already known 
from these beds. 
II.—Groxrocicat Socrery or Lonpon. 
1. May 24, 1916.—Dr. Alfred Harker, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., V.P.G.S., exhibited Devonian 
fish-remains from Australia and the Antarctic regions, and discussed 
our present knowledge of the Devonian fish fauna of the southern 
hemisphere. So far as is known, there are no strange elements in 
this fauna, and the remains discovered closely resemble those met 
with in the Northern Hemisphere. Even the rocks are very similar 
to those containing the corresponding fossils in the Northern 
Hemisphere. ‘There is, as yet, no satisfactory evidence of the basal 
Devonian fish fauna such as occurs in the Downtonian of England 
and Scotland ; but both Lower and Upper Devonian forms occur in 
Victoria and New South Wales (Australia). A Coccostean related 
to Phlyctenaspis from Gippsland (Victoria), and another related to 
Macropetalichthys from Goodra Vale (New South Wales), may be 
regarded as Lower or Middle Devonian; typical plates of Bothriolepis 
from the Harvey Range (New South Wales) indicate an Upper 
Devonian fauna. he fish-remains obtained by the Discovery 
Expedition in Granite Harbour (Antarctica) comprise Bothriolepis, 
another Ostracoderm related to Byssacanthus, Acanthodian scales, 
Selachian dermal tubercles, a Coccostean, scales of Osteolepide, and 
scales of a very small Paleoniscid. They must be regarded as Upper 
Devonian. 
Dr. Woodward expressed his indebtedness to the Government 
Geologist of New South Wales for the loan of the Australian 
specimens exhibited. ; 
Mr. R. Bullen Newton exhibited some so-called Orbitoidal 
Limestones from Dutch New Guinea, the microscopical structures of 
which were shown by lantern illustrations. The specimens were 
collected by Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston during his expedition to that 
country in 1912-13, on the snow-line of Mount Carstensz at a height 
of 14,200 feet, this mountain forming the highest elevation of New 
