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Work in South Lanarkshire has resulted in considerable increase in 
knowledge concerning the important outlier of the Douglas Coalfield, 
and a valuable comparison made between the beds at Coalburn and 
Ponteigh illustrated by clear vertical sections of the rocks worked 
at the two places. Borings for oil have been made in many places 
in the coalfields and oil-shale fields, the most interesting being the 
search for the extension of the Linlithgowshire oil-shales in a north- 
west direction, without success. The important and interesting 
details relative to the alternative of these oil-shales are made the 
subject of a special appendix, illustrated with three admirable vertical 
sections. 
As usual the appendices contain details relative to matters of 
special economic import ; of these which are five in number, three 
relate to coalfields and two to Mesozoic rocks. 
Gaara. 
Fossit BirD-REMAINS COLLECTED By Dr. ForsytaH Masor 1N 
SARDINIA, Corsica, AND GREECE. By E. T. Newton. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. April, 1921. 
D—D® FORSYTH MAJOR has for many years been interested in 
collecting fossil vertebrate remains from caves in Sardinia 
and Corsica, and several years ago some interesting bones of birds 
from among these fossils were described by Mr. R. Lydekker. Since 
then further extensive explorations in these and several other caves 
have yielded many more remains of both mammals and birds. We 
are still waiting for Dr. Forsyth Major’s description of the former, 
but the Avian bones are briefly described in the present paper by 
..T. Newton. A few additional species are noted from the three 
caves which yielded Mr. Lydekker’s specimens. Several other caves 
have also yielded birds’ bones, but by far the greater number are 
from the Grotta di Funtanedu, near Basta, N.K. Corsica, which is 
said to be 400 metres above the sea. A list of some thirty-four 
species is given from this cave, but each is represented by only a 
few bones. All the forms identified are referred with more or less 
certainty to living species, but a few of them seem not to have been 
previously recorded from these Mediterranean islands. Although the 
Avian species recognized give no clue to the geological horizon of 
the deposits in these caves, Dr. Forsyth Major has reasons for 
regarding them with one exception as of Pleistocene Age. 
REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS. 
GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
3rd June, 1921. 
“The Geology of Belgium, with special reference to the Long 
Excursion.” By L. Dudley Stamp, M.Sc., A.K.C., F.GS. 
Natural regions and physical geography of the country. The 
northern lowlands, the long narrow Namur Coalfield, the southern 
