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OOInTTEHSTTS. 



I. Okiginal Articles. Page 



The Antarctic Ice-cap. By H. T. 



Feerar, M.A., F.G.S., Geologist 



to the late '' Discovery" Antarctic 



Expedition, etc. (With three Text- 

 Illustrations.) 529 



The Interglacial Question. By T. F. 



Jamieson, F.G.S 534 



The Origin of certain Laterites. By 



Malcolm Maclarex,B.Sc., F.G.S. 



(With two Text-Illustrations.) 536 



Two Operculate Corals — Madreporaria 



Rugosa— from Yass, New South 



Wales. By A. J. Shearsby. 



(Plate XXVi.) 547 



Concretionary Nodules with Plant- 



Eemains fi'om the Bed of the Yarra 



at South Melbourne, etc. By 



Frederick Chapman, A.L.S., 



etc., Paleontologist, National 



Museum, Melbom-ne. (With two 



Text-Illustrations.) 553 



A New Palteoniscid Fish from near 



Holywell, Flint. By Dr. R. H. 



TRAauAiR,F.R.S., F.G.S. (With 



two Text-Illustrations.) 556 



II. Notices of Memoirs. 

 Memoirs of the Geological Survey: — 



The Scilly Isles 558 



Sidmouth and Lyme Regis 558 



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Notices of Memoirs (continued). Page 



Macclesfield, Congleton, etc 558 



Suffolk Water Supply 559 



Yorkshire Water Supply 559 



Soils and Subsoils of London 559 



Tenth Meeting of International Geo- 

 logical Congress, City of Mexico ... 560 



III. Reviews. 



The Geology of Armenia. By Dr. Felix 

 Oswald 562 



Geological Map of the Colony of the 

 Cape of Good Hope 563 



New Geological Map of North America 564 



Geological Survey of Canada : Palaeo- 

 zoic Fossils 566 



Geological Survey of W. Australia : 

 North Coolgardie Goldfield 567 



IV. Reports and Proceedings. 

 Geological Society of London — 



November 7th, 1906 568 



V. Correspondence. 

 Dr. J. S. Flett, M.A., F.G.S. .. 

 Dr. T. G. Bonney, M.A., F.R.S. 

 G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S 



E. J. Edwards 572 



F. J. Bennett, F.G.S 573 



T. 0. Bosworth 



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