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"Whitecliff Bay, though I had some hope that this might be the case. 

 The drought was unfavourable to collecting at Barton and Hordwell, 

 where most interesting fruits are washed out during heavy raius, 

 and I procured no plants during my visits there this year ; but it 

 favoured, on the contrary, collecting at Lough Neagh, by lowering 

 the level of the lake ; and I am able to add a new Pferis, an ex- 

 quisitely preserved fruit, and many Dicotyledons to the Flora, and 

 a Paludina to the Fauna. 



No plant-remains are obtainable this year at Beading, nor do any 

 of the other brick-pits in which plant-remains have occurred seem 

 in exactly a favourable state, at the moment, for collecting, so that 

 it appears undesirable to ask for further grants for this purpose at 

 present. The Lower Eocene Floras are, however, still insufficiently 

 known, and excavations at Bromley or elsewhere in the Woolwich 

 horizon would, I anticipate, yield especially important results. In. 

 the mean time, an enormous mass of material has now been ac- 

 cumulated, which will require years of patient research to digest. 

 Advantage has been taken of the presence of that distinguished 

 Palseobotanist, the Marquis de Saporta, at our meeting, to go 

 through the drawings, numbering more than a thousand, that I have 

 already made of the plants so far collected. He is completely 

 astonished at the richness of our Eocenes, and considers them to be 

 unrivalled. The Beading and Bournemouth horizons contain plants 

 which do not appear in Europe until much later Tertiary times, 

 seeming to have passed very slowly across Europe towards Eastern 

 Asia, which may be considered their present home, their chief affini- 

 ties being with floras indigenous to that part of the globe, rather 

 than with those of America and Australia, as hitherto supposed. 



In conclusion, it may be mentioned, that although, owing to the 

 drought and other causes, already referred to, the results of this 

 year's labours have been but small, when contrasted with the 

 magnificent collections obtained in former j^ears ; yet, notwith- 

 standing these adverse circumstances, several important additions 

 have been made by me to the palceophytological collections in the 

 British Museum which will doubtless prove of good service in 

 elucidatino; the Eocene flora of Britain. 



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Les Eaux souterraines atjx epoquks anciennes. Par A, 

 Daubree, etc. One Vol. pp. 443, with numerous Illustrations. 

 (Yve. Ch. Dunod, Editeur, Paris, 1887.) 



THIS work treats of the part which underground waters have 

 played in the origin and modification of the substance of the 

 Earth's crust. In the preface Mons. Daubree alludes to the ideas of 

 Bernard Palissy and others as to the analogy which exists between 

 what we should call organic and inorganic bodies, and to the belief 

 that the latter possess a sort of quasi-vitality. Questions hearing on 

 this subject have lately attracted the attention both of the President 

 of the Geological Society and the Editor of this Magazine. It is 



