Notices of Memoirs — Skeene Sf Smyth on Gippsland. 559 



BodopJtyllum Phillip si amim, Thomson, sp. nov. PI. XX. Fig. 4. 



Specific characters. — Corallnm turbinate, short, and marked with 

 small accretion ridges. Calice circular, moderately deep. Columel- 

 larian bosi rotund, slightly raised above the inner margin of the 

 primary septa, and crowned by sub-convolute lamella3. Septa 

 numerous, 60 primary, exhibiting well-marked lamina near their 

 inner margin, where they are fusiform, and curve gently towards 

 the fossula, or from left to right. There is an equal number of 

 secondary septa, which pass inwards from the wall for about two 

 lines. There they bend and become united to the primary septa. 

 Each are laterally united with numerous angular dissepiments, which 

 fill up the interseptal spaces. 



Height of corallum 2 in. ; diameter of calice 1 in. and 11 lines. 



This species differs from Bod. Craigianum in its turbinate form, 

 and the smallness of the central boss, and in the number and arrange- 

 ment of the interseptal dissepiments. 



Position. — Found in a thin bed of shale overlying the low post 

 of Limestone in Trearn Quarry, near Beith, Ayrshire. 



I dedicate this species to the late Prof. John Phillips, F.E.S., 

 as an expression of my appreciation of his uniform urbanity and 

 kindness, nowhere better exemplified than in Section C. at the 

 Meetings of the British Association. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XX. 



Rodopliyllum Craigianum. 

 Fig. 1. The usual appearance of a longitudinal section. 

 la. A transverse section, natural size. 

 Podophyllum Slimonianum. 



2. A transverse section, natural size. 



Rodophyllum simplex. 



3. Corallum with epitheca and septa eroded away, exposing the columel- 



larian boss. 

 Za. A transverse section, natural size. 

 Rodophyllum Phillipsianum. 



4. A transverse section, natural size. 



J^OTICES OIF IMIIBlVCOHaS- 



I. — Eeport on the Physical Character and Eesotjrces op 

 Gippsland. By A. J. Skene and E. Brough Smyth. 8vo. 

 pp. 65. (Melbourne, 1874.) 



THIS is an Official Eeport, made by the Surveyor-G-eneral and the 

 Secretary for Mines, to the Hon. J. J. Casey, Minister of Lands 

 and Agriculture for the Colony of Victoria. 



The writers describe the general physical features of Gippsland, 

 the soils, timber, the rivers and lakes. The lakes "are full of 

 interest. Occupying extensive but shallow depressions in the great 

 tract of level Tertiary country (which has its limits on the north 

 as far as Kangaroo Creek, a tributary of the Eiver Mitchell, on the 

 west in the tributaries of the La Trobe, and on the east at Eam Head), 

 these waters may be regarded as similar to the pools that are left 



