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3. North of England Bibliogeapht. — Mr. Thomas Sheppard 

 continues his helpful list of "Papers and Records relating to the 

 Geology and Palaeontology of the ISTorth of England", those for 1912, 

 Yorkshire excepted, being printed in the Naturalist for July last. 

 It is announced that the Yorkshire items will be included in 

 a memorial volume to the late C. Eox Strangways, that will shortly 

 be published by the Yorkshire Geological Society. 



4. Coal-fields of India. — In vol. xli of the Memoirs of the 

 Geological Survey of India (1913), the work on Goal-fields, by 

 Y. Ball, has been entirely revised aud largely rewritten by Mr. E.. R. 

 Simpson. He gives a practical account of the subject, illustrated 

 by views of colliery works and machinery, by maps of the Raniganj 

 and Jharia Coal-fields, . and a more general map of the Central 

 Provinces and districts further east, including Burma. There is also 

 a useful bibliography. 



5. Water-supply Papees, Nos. 305, 307, and 308 (1913), continue 

 the records of "Surface Water Supply of the United States", and 

 give particulars relating to Hudson Bay and Upper Mississippi River, 

 Lower Mississippi River Basin, and Western Gulf of Mexico. No. 318 

 (1913) is on the " Water Resources of Hawaii", by Messrs. W. E. 

 Martin and C. H. Pierce. Maps are given of the drainage of Hawaii 

 and associated islands ; there are particulars of gaugings, rainfall, 

 etc. ; and views of scenery, irrigation-works, etc. 



I. — Geological Societt of London. 



1. November 19, 1913.— Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



No papers were read, but in response to the invitation issued on 

 November 5 eighteen or more exhibits were made of implements 

 and reputed implements of Palaeolithic and earlier age, and of flints 

 showing various types of fracture. 



The President, in opening the proceedings, said that the subject 

 which had come before the Society for consideration was partly of 

 anthropological interest, but fell also within the limits of geology. 

 For the exhibits included specimens of flints from strata ranging in 

 age so far back as the base of the Crag ; and the determination of 

 the age of the strata was clearly a matter for geological investigation. 



The specimens exhibited included some for which evidence of 

 human workmanship was claimed with much confidence, but without 

 having obtained universal acceptance. There were also shown 

 series of flints illustrating the manifold forms of fracture which are 

 attributable to natural causes. A comparison of these with the 

 reputedly artificial forms could not fail to be instructive. 



A large number of flints, for which a human origin was claimed, 

 had been found lying on the surface or embedded in the soil. These 

 were cliiefly of anthropological interest. 



