260 president's address. 



the recent British Ostracoda," is ready for publication, and is 

 about to be offered to the Linnean Society. Mr. Brady has also 

 in preparation, in conjunction with Messrs. Crosskey and Robert- 

 son of Glasgow, a "Monograph of the Post Tertiary Fntomos- 

 traca," which will be published by the Palseontographical Society. 



Mr. H. B. Brady has in preparation a " Monograph on the Crag 

 Foraminifera" which he is writing in conjunction with Messrs. 

 Parker and Jones, and which will be tbe next volume published 

 by the Palosontographical Society. Mr. Brady is also gathering 

 material for a work on the " Foraminifera of the Lias" and the 

 "Annals of Natural History," for last July, contained a joint 

 paper, by Messrs. Jones, Parker, and Brady, " On the Nomencla- 

 ture of the Foraminifera, with Figures of D' ' Orbigny 's Models." 



Mr. Browell has completed a valuable series of analyses of the 

 Magnesian Limestone, from about 6isty different beds, chiefly 

 with reference to the proportions of lime and magnesia. The 

 result of these analyses will appear in our Transactions, and it is 

 not improbable that they may prove to have considerable geolo- 

 gical interest. 



Dr. Bruce has been passing through the press the third edition 

 of his well-known work on " The Roman Wall.'''' Much new 

 matter will be embodied in this edition, which will be printed 

 in quarto instead of octavo, and will be much more copiously 

 illustrated than those which have preceded it. 



The Rev. ¥m. Greenwell has brought out a long paper on 

 British Tumuli in the North and Fast Ridings in the Journal of 

 the Archaeological Institute, and another upon Cairns and other 

 early remains in Argyleshire in the " Archaeologica Scotica" of 

 the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland ; and also a third paper 

 upon some North Northumberland sepulchral remains in the 

 Transactions of the Berwickshire Club. In addition to these 

 Mr. Greenwell has in preparation at the present time a book, 

 which will be entitled, "A Decade of Skulls from Ancient 

 Northumbrian 



Mr. A. Hancock has produced one of his elaborately worked 

 out anatomical papers, " On the Anatomy of Doridopsis, a genus 

 of Nudibranchiate Mollusca.'" This memoir is published in the 



