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to the work of the Geological Survey in these and in other practical 

 questions. 



The Ballot for the Council and Officers was takeu, and the following were declared 

 duly elected for the ensuing year: — Council: W. T. Blaiiford, LLD., F.E.S. ; 

 Professor T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S. ; Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., 

 LL.D., F.E.S. ; E. J. Garwood, Esq., M.A. ; J. W. Gregory, D.Sc. ; Alfred 

 Harker, Esq., M.A. ; F. W. Harmer, Esq. ; R. S. Herries, Esq., M.A. ; Henry 

 Hicks, M.D., F.R.S. ; Rev. Edwin Hill, M.A. ; G. J. Hinde, Ph.D., F.R.S. ; 

 W. H. Hiidleston, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S. ; Professor J. W. Judd, C.B., 

 LL.D., F.R.S. ; H. W. Monckton, Esq., F.L.S. ; F. W. Rudler, Esq. ; Professor 

 H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.L.S.: A. C. Seward, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.; Professor 

 W. J. Sollas, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S. ; A. Strahan, Esq., M.A. ; Professor 

 W. W. Watts, M.A. ; W. Whitaker, Esq., B.A., F.R.S. ; Rev. H. H. Winwood, 

 M.A. ; A. S. Woodward, Esq., F.L.S. 



Officers. — President: W. Whitaker, Esq., B.A., F.R.S. Vice - Fresidents : 

 Henry Hicks, M.D., F.R.S.; Professor J. W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.; 

 Professor W. J. Sollas, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S. ; Rev. H. H. Winwood, M.A. 

 Secretaries: R. S. Herries, Esq., M.A, ; Professor W. W. Watts, M.A. Foreign 

 Secretary : Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. Treasurer : 

 W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S. 



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EGYPTIAN CRETACEOUS SHELLS. 



Sir, — Dr. Blanckenhorn, of the Geological Survey of Egypt, has 

 recently favoured me with some detailed evidence, which goes to 

 prove that a part of the Cretaceous mollusca from Egypt described 

 by me in the Geological Magazine for 1898, p. 394, as having been 

 collected in districts eastwards of the Nile and Nile Valley, are of 

 Campanian age, and not Turonian. This renders it desirable to 

 regard the following species as Campanian : Ostrea Lyonsi, 0. Villei, 

 Protocardia btserrata, Trigonoarca multidentata, and Arctica Barroisi. 

 Dr. Blancjxenhorn further calls attention to the Cretaceous rocks of 

 Abu Roasch, which he recognizes as belonging to the two horizons 

 of Turonian and Santonian, and not to the former only, as indicated 

 in my paper. In support of this age I alluded to the discoveries of 

 M. Jules Welsch among similar deposits in Algeria; and without 

 repeating this information I feel justified, in the absence of more 

 important palaeontological evidence from this area of Egypt, in 

 considering: these beds as Turonian. R. Bullen Newton. 



SUB-OCEANIC PHYSICAL FEATURES. 



SiK, — I must reply to Professor Hull's very kind letter that I do 

 mean, that it may have been in consequence of their original union 

 on two sides of a rent, that the physical features on the opposite 

 sides of the Atlantic possess a remarkable similarity. I wish to 

 inquire of those who are studying the submarine declivities, whether 

 or not this similarity is more marked in them than in the coastlines. 



It was expressly for the purpose of eliciting opinions upon this 

 question that I wrote. Professor Hull gives his, that such a rent 

 is impossible. I should imagine that he has not fully considered my 



