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even such a difficult family as the Receptaculitidae. We received 

 only one palacobotanical paper, strictly speaking, namely, that by 

 Mr. Kidston, on Zeilleria and other forms belonging to the old genus 

 Sphenopteris. 



In addition to these, several papers were read on geological 

 subjects without the limits of the United Kingdom, dealing with 

 localities not only on the continent of Europe, but also in regions 

 so remote as Japan, Australia, and Kew Zealand. 



Turning for one moment from the work of our Fellows, as 

 evidenced in our Quarterly Journal, we may assert with just pride 

 that in other quarters also the intellectual activity of the Society 

 exhibits no symptom of decline. Many by their contributions have 

 aided Dr. H. Woodward in maintaining the high standard of that 

 most valuable periodical the Geological Magazine, whose coming of 

 age ought to be celebrated this year. The annual volume of the 

 Palseontographical Society, edited still, as it has been so long and so 

 well, by our Treasurer, Prof. Wiltshire, more than keeps up its high 

 reputation, and both deserves and needs the support of all geo- 

 logists. In it Baron von Ettingshausen and Mr. J. Starkie 

 Gardner continue their work on the Eocene Flora ; Professor 

 Rupert Jones, with his coUahorateurs Messrs Kirkby and Brady, 

 neither of whom have we the pleasure of counting among our 

 Fellows, conclude their monograph on the Carboniferous Entomo- 

 straca ; Dr. AVoodward completes the description of the Carboniferous 

 Trilobites ; Mr. Davidson, the supplement to the British Brachiopoda, 

 bringing thus to an end, at any rate for a time, a^work of inestim- 

 able value to every student of geology ; and the volume ends with 

 the seventh part of the description of the Ammonites of the Lias, 

 the last contribution which we shall ever receive from the pen of 

 our departed friend Dr. T. Wright. Mr. Bauerman has published a 

 most useful ' Manual of Systematic Mineralogy,' thus completing his 

 treatise on the subject. The large and exhaustive volume on ore- 

 deposits entitles Mr. J. A. Phillips, our Vice-President, to the 

 gratitude of all students of that difficult branch of our science ; 

 Professor P. M. Duncan has revised and augmented the fourth edi- 

 tion of Sir Charles Lyell's ' Student's Manual of Geology ; ' and the 

 first volume of the late Professor Phillips's 'Manual of Geology,' 

 treating of Physical Geology and Palaeontology, testifies the care and 

 the erudition of Professor Seeley. On this the editor has expended 

 fully as much labour as would be needed for the production of an 

 entirely new book, and it is impossible to praise too highly the 

 research which it evidences. It is far more than a text-book, it is 

 a directory to the student in prosecuting his investigations. We 

 await impatiently the second volume, on Stratigraphical Geology, 

 which is in charge of our friend Mr. P. Etheridge, sometime 

 President of this Society. Lastly, we have just received from the 

 British Museum a copy (in advance) of Mr. R. Lydekker's Illustrated 

 Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia (Part I.), and also a copy of a 

 small illustrated Guide to the Fossil Fishes by Dr. H. Woodward. 

 Both these books are placed upon the table. 



