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lected by Dr. Hildebrandt, offer a striking analogy to those from the 

 AcantMcus-zone of East-India, published by Dr. Waagen. Some 

 Planulati among them may possibly be identical with Ammonites 

 torquatus or Amm, hathyplocus. — Count Marschall. 



III. — F. Karrek on Miocene Foraminifera in the Philippines. 

 (Imper. Geol. Instit. Vienna, Report, September 30, 1877.) 

 The fossil Foraminifera at Luzon, in the Philippines, are Nodosaria, 

 Cristellaria, Polymorphina, Globigerina, etc., characteristic of a 

 rather deep-sea deposit. The same forms having been found in the 

 Nicobar Islands, Java, Celebes, and Borneo, an extensive Miocene sea 

 may be supposed to have existed from the Nicobars to Luzon. — 

 Count Marschall. 



IV. — Dr. 0. Lenz — On West-African Geology.^ 

 (Eeport Imper. Geol. Instit. Vienna, December 4, 1877.) 

 Some Organic Eemains have been collected near Landana and 

 Caconge, 5° 15' Lat. S., and 12° Long. E. Greenwich, on the West 

 Coast of Africa. The coast there consists of steep cliffs and rocks, 

 rising to a height of 50 feet. Inland is a series of hills, projecting 

 from the West-Africa chain, which ranges N.-S., and is composed of 

 gneiss, mica-schist, talc-schist, quartzites, etc. This is the " Sierra do 

 Crista! " or " Sierra complida " of the Portuguese. On the banks of 

 the Gaboon and Ogowe Eivers (from 1° Lat. N., to 1° Lat. S.) this 

 promontory consists of horizontal calcareous sandstones with 

 Cretaceous fossils. Further South, it appears as a deep-brown, 

 friable, very fine-grained ferruginous, and non-calcareous oolite. 

 In it are Corals, with Zeda, Mactra, Tellina, Cardium, etc. Eemains 

 of Fishes, very well preserved, have been found near Landana, 

 about 36 miles south of Point Padron. A large slab of grey, fine- 

 grained, somewhat argillaceous sandstone contains the vertebrae and 

 skull, with teeth and branchial arches, of a large Fish, more or less 

 compressed. Teeth, also, and dorsal spines of a Eay, a tooth of a 

 Crocodile, a coprolite, and a very large and probably Cretaceous 

 Nautilus, were collected in the same locality. The last-mentioned 

 fossil was full of a light-coloured limestone, crowded with small 

 Gasteropods and Bivalves. The cliffs, 20 feet high, along the 

 coast of Ambrisetta, east of the mouth of the Congo (or " Living- 

 stone") Eiver, are composed of a light-grey limestone abounding 

 with shells of Ostrea. — Count Marschall. 



I^EVIIE^WS. 



I. — Eecords of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. xi. Pt. i. 



1878. 



THE " Records " of this Survey enter upon their second decade 

 with a quarterly part of nearly three times the usual size ; the 

 first for 1878, containing, besides the Annual Eeport of the Superin- 

 tendent, several important papers by the officers : " Notes on the 

 Geology of the Upper Godaveri Basin" (Hughes); "Notes on the 

 1 See Geol. Mag. New Ser. Vol. IV. p. 27. 



