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the Scotsman; by Wallace, who writes on the geology of 

 Stratlidearu ; Kirkby, ou Lower Carboniferous of Randerstone in 

 Fife ; and Cadell, on the geology of the oil shales of the Lothians. 

 Jessen, of the Geological Survey of Denmark, has an interesting 

 paper on the Pleistocene shell-bearing clays in Kintyre, clays which 

 were investigated by a committee of the British Association in 

 1895-6. Pala3ontology is poorly represented : Kirkby deals with 

 Ostracoda from the Scotsman section mentioned above, but 

 nothing new is recorded ; Simpson and Hepburn write on 

 mammalian bones found during excavations at Hailes Quarry, 

 near Edinburgh. These consist of fragments referable to red 

 deer, horse, ox, goat, and field-vole. Mr. James Simpson, who died 

 before the publication of his paper, receives a sympathetic notice 

 from his colleague. Some notes ou the distribution of erratics 

 over Eastern Moray, by Mackie, concludes the contents of this part, 



V. — Journal of the Geological Society of Tokyo : vol. viii, 

 No. 89, Feb. 20th, 2561. — Things move fast in Japan ; here we 

 are still in the twentieth century. The publications of the Japanese 

 Survey are too well known to require mention to the readers of the 

 Geological Magazine, but we may certainly call attention to the 

 opening of the twelfth volume of the Journal of the Geological 

 Society of Tokyo. The Journal, which, with the exception of the 

 " Table of Contents " upon page 1 of the cover, is all printed in 

 the usual Japanese characters, opens with" A Geological Disturbance 

 near Handayama," by K. Inoue, but from the text we are uncertain 

 whether or not it was of Old Red Sandstone age. Mr. Iki has 

 a paper on the geology of the Middle Kiushiu, and Hirabayashi 

 writes on the province Kian Si. The Sliidara Tertiary Basin in 

 Mikawa is continued from the last part by Ishikawa, and Yoshida 

 contains his report on the southern part of Higo. Those suffering 

 from Ammonititis will find a fascinating paper on the Genealogy of 

 the Genera Puzosia and Desmoceras by H. Yabe. In this paper full 

 justice is done to previous authors, the various species are discussed 

 and grouped, and their development carefully considered. Perhaps 

 to a Western eye the relationships of the various characters seem 

 a little mixed, but they are very clearly printed. 



VI.— Geology of Hawaii. — As might be expected, the newly 

 annexed Hawaiian Islands have been descended upon by United 

 States geologists, and we have for notice a report by C. H. Hitchcock 

 on the geology of Oahu. This was read before the Geological 

 Society of America, August 22nd, 1899, and issued in the Bulletin 

 February, 1901. The author can scarcely complain of hasty 

 publication. Naturally the bulk of the geology is volcanic, but 

 there is an interesting chapter on certain calcareous and tufaceous 

 beds near Diamond Head, by W. H. Dall. Dr. Dall considers the 

 conditions to be incompatible with the reference of these fossiliferous 

 beds to a period as late as the Pleistocene, but the fossils have every 

 characteristic of those generally assigned to the Pliocene or Upper 

 Miocene in their general aspect and state of fossilization. There is 



