Reports & Proceedings — Geological Society of Glasgow. 571 



Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand in the Collection of the 

 Colonial Museum, published in 1873. The present fasciculus 

 embraces further revision work of New Zealand Tertiary shells 

 described subsequently to 1873 by the same author, and which are 

 said to be preserved in the Canterbury, Otago, and Geological Survey 

 Museums. Mr. Suter also furnishes redescriptions of six species of 

 the Hutton Catalogue, besides including some notes on other 

 molluscan types established by Kirk, Hector, E. de C. Clarke, 

 P. Marshall, and J. Allan Thomson. He recognizes rather more 

 than a hundred species of Gastropoda and about forty Pelecypoda, 

 among them being the following new forms : Struthiolaria parva, 

 Turris (Memipleurotoma) nexilis, Hutton, sub-species licarinatus, and 

 Trigonia neozelanica. The whole of the species, as in part i, belong 

 to rocks which are regarded as either of Miocene or Pliocene age. 

 As this completes the author's researches on the type-material of 

 New Zealand Tertiary Mollusca, we heartily commend its results to 

 all students of palseoconchology, as well as to those interested in 

 problems connected with the ancestry of present-day shells common 

 to New Zealand seas. 



P. B. N. 



IRIE IP (DIRTS ^USTID ZPZROCIEEIIDIirsrG-S- 



I. — Geological Society oe Glasgow. 



At the first meeting of the session of the Geological Society of 

 Glasgow, held on October 14, Professor J. W. Gregory, F.P.S., F.G.S., 

 delivered his Presidential Address on " Geological Factors affecting 

 the Strategy of the War ". 



The following summary has been issued : — 



The geological influences on international politics are less widely 

 appreciated than the geographical, but the War with its new struggles 

 on former battlefields is largely controlled by the geological structure 

 of Europe. The distribution of the mineral resources of the Continent 

 is affecting the course of the War, and may have a still more 

 important bearing on the diplomatic negotiations at its end. The 

 redistribution of political power in Europe during the past forty 

 years has been greatly affected by the discovery that Germany is one 

 of the greatest coal countries of the world. Since 1870 we have 

 increased our coal output two and a half times, and Germany has 

 magnified hers eightfold ; and even more significant is the discovery 

 that the German coal reserves are estimated as more than twice as 

 large as our own, and are estimated as 423,000 million tons, out of 

 the 784,000 million tons for the whole of Europe. The significance 

 of that pregnant fact has not been generally recognized. The German 

 coal-fields are all placed in exposed positions near the frontiers, and 

 Germany has therefore maintained an army ready for instant battle. 

 Her military capacity has been illustrated by her seizure of the 

 Belgian, Polish, and chief French coal-fields and successful defence 

 of all her own. 



