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(lescnbed, and six plates arc given. Thirty-two forms are new, and 

 the publication of this fauna in an accessible form is greatly to the 

 credit of ^Ir. Chapman and the Museum authorities. 



6. New Hebrides. — Chapman continues in the Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 New South Wales for 1907 (vol. xxxii, pt. iv) his researches on the 

 Tertiary Foraminiferal Kocks of the New Hebrides. In this paper 

 he deals with Miocene and Post-Miocene beds from Malekula, collected 

 by Mr. Douglas Mawson. The more important results of Chapman's 

 Avork are distributional, and link up the New Hebrides with Southern 

 Australia, the Philippines, and .Japan to the north, and Java and 

 Borneo on the west. One of the forms described, Lepidoojclina 

 munieri, occurs at Vicentin in Italy. Curiously enough there is no 

 reference to W. D. Smith's record of Lcpidocijdina and Litliotliamnium 

 in the Philippines (Philippine .Journ. 8ci., 1907, vol. ii, No. 6, p. 096). 



7. Stomach Stones. — Mr. W. H. AVickes has collected together the 

 scattered information relative to Stomach Stones in Animals and 

 printed it in tlie Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, 

 1908, ser. iv, vol. ii, pt. i. He refers to the recent and fossil 

 reptilia, fishes, mammals, and one bird (the penguin) as practising 

 this habit, and notes that the stones are usually white and of quartz. 

 As regards its interest to geologists, this stone -swallowing habit 

 possibly explains the small nests of pebbles found in deposits to which 

 they are entirely foreign, and their deposition on the death and 

 decomposition of the fish or reptile to which they belonged is possibly 

 quite as likely as the old theory of their being transported by floating 

 roots or ice. 



8. Colouh-Mahkings ox Fossil Mollusca. — The colour-markings 

 preserved on fossil shells have long had a fascination for the collector, 

 and some of these markings have been retained in a remarkable 

 manner. Mr. Pt. B. Newton, in a recent paper (Proc. Malac. Soc, 

 1907, vol. vii, pt. v), has collected together the available material 

 and illustrated many interesting examples. Shells showing colour- 

 bands are known from the Silurian period to the Pleistocene, excellent 

 specimens coming from the Carboniferous Limestone. The finest 

 examples given by Mr. Newton are a NaiicopsiH from the Devonian 

 and a Mourlonia from the Carboniferous. The fact of the colour- 

 bands being preserved is of little or no importance geologically, but as 

 a side issue has considerable interest. 



I. — Geological Society of London. 

 Kovnnhr \^, 1908.— Professor W. J. Sollas, LL.D., Sc.D., P.ll.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 

 The following communication was read : — 



"On some Intrusive Rocks in the Neighbourhood of Eskdale 

 (Cumberland)." By Arthur Bichard Dwerryhouse, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



There appear to be five well-marked groups of intrusions in this 

 district — 



