Quarterly Journal of Science. 421 



Mr. E. Lechmere Gruppy describes and figures twenty-seven new 

 species of Miocene Mollusca from Jamaica, three new species of 

 Miocene Brachiopoda from Trinidad, and three new species of 

 Echinnlampas from the West Indies. He makes some interesting- 

 remarks on the relationshijD of the Miocene beds of Jamaica, and 

 gives a list of the fossils and their distribution. Mr. Davidson adds 

 a note on the Brachiopoda. 



Dr. Young gives a detailed anatomical description of Platysomus 

 and allied genera ; also a note on the scales of BMzodus. 



Then come a number of abstracts of papers relating to the recent 

 volcanic disturbances in the neighbourhood of Santorino, with which 

 the Society has been literally deluged. 



Mr. Jukes' exhaustive paper on the Carboniferous Slate (or 

 Devonian Bocks) and the Old Bed Sandstone of South Ireland and 

 North Devon concludes this number of the proceedings of the Society. 



In the Miscellaneous part are abstracts of papers by Herr von 

 Koenen on the Fauna of the Lower Oligocene Tertiary Beds of 

 Helmstadt, near Brunswick ; by M. E. Hebert, on the Nummiditic 

 Strata of Northern Italy and the Alps, and on the Oligocene of 

 Germany ; and by Professor Gtimbel, on the Occurrence of Eozoon 

 in the Primary Eocks of Eastern Bavaria. 



III. QUAKTERLT JoURNAL OF SciENCE, July, 1866. 



"E. HULL, of the Geological Survey, gives an account of the 

 New Iron-fields of England. The supply of the Coal-measure 

 iron-stones in the Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Glasgow districts is 

 rapidly diminishing, while every year the demand for iron is in- 

 creasing. "How this demand was to be met, without drawing 

 largely on the resources of foreign coimtries, is a problem which 

 received its solution just at the time when it began to occupy men's 

 minds," by the discovery of the "New Iron Fields" here described. 

 They occupy a broad belt of country extending from the Cleveland 

 Hills of Yorkshire to the Cotteswolds of Gloucester and Somerset. 

 The Iron-stone occurs at the top of the Marlstone, or Middle Lias, 

 and at the base of the Great Oolite. 



Mr. Boyd Dawkins, of the Geological Survey, contributes a paper 

 on the Habits and Condition of the Two Earliest Eaces of Men. 

 "He traces man from his earliest appearance on the earth down to 

 the borders of history, and shows how, as he grew older, he profited 

 by his experience, and slowly widened the chasm between himself 

 and the brutes, by making his life more and more artificial." 



Mr. Archibald Geikie, F.E.S., gives some hints to Home Tourists 

 on the advantages of a knowledge of the elements of geology, and 

 points out the study of our old British volcanoes as a "field of 

 research where the reapers have not been so numerous as in some 

 others adjoining, and where, in consequence, there still remain a 

 good many sheaves to be gathered." [See Mr. Geikie's article "On 

 the Permian Volcanos of Scotland," Geological Magazine, June, 

 1866, p. 243.] 



