Correspondence — Professor T. G. Bonney. 525- 



Messes. C Davies Shekborn and B. B. Woodward are issuing 

 a series of papers on the dates of publication of various French 

 Voyages which appeared between 1800 and 1900. The papers will 

 be found in the Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist, for April, August, and 

 October, and contain many notes on geological papers which have 

 heretofore presented difficulties as to date. 



New Foeaminifera. — R. J. Schubert has a paper on some Fora- 

 minifera from the Upper Chalk of East Galicia, in the Jahrb. k.k. 

 geol. Reichs., l (4), 1901. The chief novelty is a curious form to 

 which he gives the name of Karreria cretacea. J. Grzybowski 

 writes on the Foraminifera of the Inoceramus beds of Gorlice. His 

 paper appears in the Bull. Internat. Ac. Sci. Cracovie for April, 1901. 

 Two plates, chiefly devoted to arenaceous forms, are given. 



From the Report of Progress of the Manchester Museum 

 we gather that the Geological Department has been enriched by 

 the Barnes Collection of Carboniferous invertebrates, and some 

 selections from the Jukes-Browne Collection. Fossil plants have 

 received a good deal of attention, the types and figured specimens 

 of Oolitic species, which were examined by Mr. Seward, having 

 been labelled and displayed. Mr. R. D. Darbishire has presented 

 the Museum with a specimen of the recent Fleurotomaria adansoniana 

 from Barbados, an important and valuable acquisition to any 

 collection. 



New Jersey Geology. — The annual report of the State Geologist 

 of the Geological Survey of New Jersey for 1900 contains an 

 administrative report ; Report on the Palaeozoic Formations, by Stuart 

 "Weller, consisting of Hardiston Quartzite, Kittatinny and Trenton 

 Limestones, and Hudson River Beds ; Report on the Portland Cement 

 Industry, by H. B. Kiimmel ; Artesian Wells in New Jersey, by 

 Lewis Woolman ; Mineralogical Notes, by A. C. Chester ; Chlorine 

 in the Natural Waters of the State, by W. S. Myers ; and the Mining 

 Industry, by H. B. Kummel. 



Portuguese Geology. — Paul Choffat has published in the Bull. 

 Soc. Beige Geol., xv. May, 1901, an important paper on the 

 " Limite entre le Jurassique et le Cretacique en Portugal." From 

 a careful study of the different exposures and the fossils contained 

 in the beds, he comes to the conclusion that the limit between the 

 two systems in Portugal must be regarded as only a conventional 

 one. He finds that both the fauna and flora show an almost 

 imperceptible passage between the two formations in certain places. 



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name I would have endeavoured to explain to him my reasons for 



writing the paragraph which he quotes, though I knew that the 



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