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I. — Index Geneeum et Specieeitm Animalium. 



Eeport of a Committee consisting of Dr. Henry Wootiward (Chairman), 

 Dr. P. A. Bather (Secretary), Dr. P. L. Sclater, Rev. T. R. R. 

 Stebbing, Dr. W. E. Hoyle, Hon. Walter Rothschild, and Lord 

 Walsingham.^ 



STEADY progress has been made with the indexing of the literature 

 for the second portion of this Index (1801-1850). Among numerous 

 works dealt with, the compiler, Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, specially 

 mentions the following: — 



Boisduval's works on Lepidoptera. 



Publications of the Bologna Academy. 



Bonaparte's numerous tracts and his " Conspectus Generum Avium." 



Publications of the Bonn I^atural History Society. 



Publications of the Bordeaux Linnean Society. 



Roret's edition of the " Suites a Buffon." 



The number of index slips increases with great rapidity, and 

 continual effort is needed to keep this mass of material in order for 

 reference. The sheets already arranged constitute a mine of information, 

 for monographers and others. They are preserved in the Geological 

 Department of the British Museum (IS^atural History), where reference 

 is fi'equently made to them by members of the staff and outside 

 workers, while information derived from them is often asked for by 

 correspondents at a distance. The Committee would, however, be 

 glad to see still more advantage taken of the facilities now offered for 

 the consultation of this valuable aid to systematic work. 



A copy of the first volume of the " Index " is being sliown in the 

 Science Hall of the Franco-British Exhibition. 



The Committee asks for reappointment, and earnestlj' hopes that the 

 full sum of £100 will be granted towards the continued preparation of 

 the "Index Animalium." 



II. — Glacial Drift in Scillt. 



OUR attention has been drawn by Mr. W. A. E. TJssher to the 

 following passage in a paper by the late E. A. Wiinsch, "On Raised 

 Beaches," read on June loth, 1894, at the Joint Meeting of the 

 Scientific Societies of Cornwall at Penzance. In that paper he 

 accepts the evidence put forward as to the stranding of erratics on the 

 shores during the formation of the raised beaches, and continues 

 thus: — " We must hence refer the age of our Raised Beaches to the 

 later stages of the Glacial Period, and with this great northern drift 

 with its heavier burden checked by and deposited in front of the Isle 

 of Wight and Portland Bay we must connect the effects of the same 

 drift farther westwards, by means of which, and by ground ice and 



1 Submitted to the Meeting of the British Association, Section D, Zoology ; Dublin, 

 September, 1908. 



