380 Reports &, Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 



11. Jurassic Brachiopoda. — In June, 1914, Mr. S. S. Buckman, 

 who has been working for some years on a large series of Brachiopoda 

 from Burma, issued a single sheet (through Messrs. Wesley & Son) of 

 new generic names, to which he attached the name of the genotypes. 

 This he circulated freely with No. xiv of his " Yorkshire Type 

 Ammonites", June, 1914, and now (May, 1915) the same with 

 additional matter appears in his "Brachiopoda of the Narnyall Beds 

 of Burma " (Records Geol. Surv. India, xiv, pt. i), which is 

 a preliminary notice of a monograph now in course of printing in the 

 PalcBontologica Indica. 



While opinions may differ as to the advantages of these preliminary 

 notices, it is only fair to point out that, with so nianyworkers in 

 the same field, ' cutting out' is as often due to the dilatoriness of the 

 original author as to the want of honour in a rival. No one has the 

 right to hold up ideas that have been ventilated in conversation, to 

 the hindrance of scientific progress. 



EEPOETS .A-HXriD PEOCEEDIWGS. 



I. — Geological Society of London. 



June 23, 1915.— Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President, in 



the Chair. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. "On a New Eurypterid from the Belgian Coal-measures.'* 

 By Professor Xavier Stainier. (Communicated by Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward, F.E.S., Pres.G.S.) 



In this paper the author records the discovery of a specimen of 

 a new Eurypterus in the cores of a trial boring for coal in Belgium. 

 He describes the fossil, which is in a very satisfactory state of 

 preservation. To allow of comparisons, a short description of the 

 eleven Carboniferous species known up to the present is appended. 

 The nearest form to the Belgian fossil seems to be a Pennsylvanian 

 Eurypterus, which nevertheless is not identical with the former. The 

 author then discusses the geological range and the evolution in time 

 of the twelve Carboniferous Eurypterids. The paper ends with 

 a short literature on the subject. 



2. "On a Eossiliferous Limestone from the North Sea." By 

 Richard Bullen Newton, F.G.S. 



The material on which this paper is based was trawled from the 

 floor of the North Sea, some 100 miles N.E. \ N. of Buchan Ness, 

 and was forwarded to the British Museum (Natural History) by 

 Mr. R. D. Thomson, of Aberdeen. It presents no appearance of 

 glaciation, so that its occurrence in situ seems to be highly probable. 

 There is no record of a similar limestone from either England or 

 Scotland. It is of highly siliceous character and full of marine 

 shells, of which the Pelecypoda are the more prominent ; there are, 

 also, occasional fragments of wood in contact with the limestone 

 which, from a preliminary examination, appear to show coniferous 

 characters. Some twenty- three species of Mollusca have been 

 determined, all of which exhibit a southern facies, including ten 



