Notices of Memoirs — Papers read at British Association. 421 



J. Stanley Gardiner. — Eeporfc of the Committee for Investigations in 



the Indian Ocean. The Chagos Islands, Indian Ocean. 

 J. ParJcinson. — The Structure of Soutliern Nigeria. 

 John Thomson. — Geographical Photography. 

 R. N. Biidmose Brown. — The Geography of the South Orkneys and 



other parts of the Antarctic Region. 

 Professor A. B. Macallum. F.K.S. — Report of the Committee on the 



Quantity and Composition of Rainfall and of Lake and River 



iJischarge. 

 Professor W. B. Bottomley. — The Limestone Caves of Western 



A ustralia. 



Section H. — Anthropot.ogy. 

 Report of the Committee to Investigate the (Prehistoric) Lake- 

 Village at Gla8tonl)ury. 

 J. B. Mortimer. — On the Relative Stature of the Men with Long 



Heads, Short Heads, and those with Intermediate Heads, in the 



Museum at Driffield. 

 Harold Brodrick & G. A. Tfill. — On a recently discovered Skeleton 



in Scoska Cave, Littondale. 

 F. W. Rudler, I.S.O. — The 'Red Hills' of the East Coast Salt 



Marshes. 

 Ifiss Nina F. Lai/ard. — A Winter's Work on the Ipswich Palgeolithic 



Site. 

 Rev. R. Scott-Gatty. — Pygmy Flints from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. 

 Report of the Committee to conduct Explorations with the ohject of 



ascertaining tlie Age of Stone Circles. 



Section K. — Botany. 

 Address by the President (Professor F. W. Oliver, M.A., F.R.S.).— 



The Seed a Chapter in Evolution. 

 Reports of the Committees on Botanical Photographs, on Peat Moss 



Deposits, and on the Structure of Fossil Plants. 

 C. E. Moss, M.Sc. — Succession of Plant- Formations in Britain. 

 Dr. D. H. Scott. — Some Aspects of the Present Position of Palasozoic 



Botany. 

 J'rofessor F. E. Weiss. — On the Occurrence, Distribution, and Mode 



of Formation of the Calcareous Nodules found in Coal-seams of 



the Lower Coal-measures. 

 Miss M. C. Slopes, D.Sc, Fh.D.— On the 'Coal-balls' found in 



Coal-seams. 

 Professor F. E. Weiss. — A Stigmaria of unusual type. 



II. — British Association for the Advancement of Sciicnce. 

 Meeting at York, August 1st to Sth, 1906. Papers kead 

 BEFORE Section C, Geology. 



The Lower Palaeozoic Rocks of Pomeroy. By William G. 



Fearnsides, M.A., F.G.S. 

 The Pomeroy district was originally monographed by Portlock 

 between 1838 and 1845, and has since been neglected. Its lower 



