180 Reports and Proceedings— 
The “ Bower-bird” (Chlamydera maculata) is the only illustration 
of the fauna of Australia; the Thylacinus and Ornithorhynchus for 
Tasmania; and the Apteryx for New Zealand. 
Under “the Calecareous rocks and their principal varieties” we 
have an account and illustrations of ‘ Travertin,’ with plant- 
impressions; of washings of the Chalk, showing the various forms 
of Foraminifera, of which it is so largely built up; of Crinoidal 
limestone and figures of the various forms of Hnerinus and Penta- 
crinus, of whose broken remains they are composed. Of Corals and 
Coral-reefs with figures of the zoophytes and their skeletons and of 
the Islands and Barrier-reefs built up by their combined labours. 
Of the various kinds of Radiolarians and Foraminifera, both recent 
and fossil, and the rock-formations their microscopic organisms have 
so largely assisted to form: all this is excellently told. There are 
numerous figures of fossil organisms, ranging from the Paradowides 
of the Cambrian to the Bernissart Iyuanondon and from the Archeop- 
teryx of Solenhofen to the Mammoth of Siberia and the Cervus giganteus 
of the Irish peat-deposits. On p. 10, Fig. 23, of Lepidodenron acule- 
atum, the block has accidentally got turned upside-down, the leaf - 
scars being reversed. The woodcuts of geological scenery are most 
excellent. The Book (like so many others printed in France and 
Germany) is issued without binding in a paper wrapper, the effect 
of which is that the edges become speedily ‘“dogs-eared.” It is 
to be regretted that so fine a work should not be issued in an 
equally handsome cover, and well bound. We wish the new 
edition of Brehm all the success which has attended his other and 
earlier publications. 
REPORTS AND PROCHHDINGS. 
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GEoLoGicaL Socrery or Lonpon. 
T.—Annuat Generat Mretine.—February 17th, 1893.— W. H. 
Hudleston, Hsq., M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Secretaries read the reports of the Council and of the Library 
and Museum Committee for the year 1892. In the former the 
Council once more congratulated the Fellows on the continued 
financial prosperity of the Society. 
The number of Fellows elected during the year was 40; of these 
383 qualified before the end of 1892, together with 18 previously 
elected Fellows, there being thus a total accession of 51 Fellows 
during the twelvemonth. As, however, from this number a deduc- 
tion of 59 must be made for losses by death, resignation, and 
removal, and for new Fellows compounding, there is an actual 
decrease in the number of Contributing Fellows of 8. The total 
number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign Correspondents 
at. the close of 1892 was 1400. 
The Balance-sheet for the year 1892 showed receipts to the amount 
of £2927 14s. 9d. and an expenditure of £2358 11s. 3d. Moreover, 
the sum of £528 3s. Od. was expended in the Purchase of Stock, 
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