468 Screntific Intelligence. 
Some microspores from Alabama were identical fee phone amhich 
occur in the lower m9 d of the We tes ** four r fee A 
eles as superficial or not, it was very ahapactartaies of them, 
and was, therefore, to mF considered in attempting to ally them 
with modern vegetatio 
7. On the Geology of South Africa ; by T. Ruprerr Jonzs, 
F.R.S., G.S., etc.—The contour of the south coast is parallel 
with the outcrop of the strata in the interior, from Oliphant’s 
River (31° 40'S. lat.) on the west coast, southward to the Cape, 
and then eastward to about 33° 30'S. lat. Here the edges of the 
hea formerly bending round to the north, have been swept 
away to a great extent; but their outcrop is again seen on the 
cae coast at St. John’s River (31° 40’ (S. lat.), where oe strike 
nore er ary peer aes a ete far up the co 
Gneissic rock an e Namaqualand Schists aecanly 
be aa the others, coming ag on the northwest, aud exposing 
a narrow strip on the south coast. (2.) Mica tua and slates, 
snd Sal by granites here and there, form a curved maritime 
band, from about 30 to 70 miles broa d, and are known as the 
Malmesbury Beds (Dunn). These and the beds next in succes- 
sion (the Bokkeveld Beds, 3) are overlain unconformably by the 
Table-Mountain Seudans (4), 4,000 (?) feet thick, which forms 
Carboniferous Hee (with oe ete “sit and forms the 
Wittebergen and Zwartebergen in the Cape district, and the 
Zuurbergen in Eastern province. 
The Zeca Beds (6) come next; Lower series, 800 feet ; Con- 
glomerate beds yea), 500° feet ; Upper series, 2,700. feet ; 
conformable with No in the south much folded, and in un- 
dulations throughout, “ant it tig under the next set of beds, 
No. 7, in some places 50 miles to the north. The Ecca beds 
part of the ‘ Beaufort’ beds of ones (1867). The series No. 7, 
horizontal and unconformable on the Ecca beds at the Camdeboo 
d elsewhere, retains the name of Karoo Sandstones; and, after 
a width of about 40 miles, is conformably surmounted Ps" set of 
somewhat similar beds (8) in the Stormberg; and thus No. 7 
should be regarded as the Lower, and No. 8 the fi Karoo 
sandstones. The latter end off northward in the Draakensberg, 
Natal, Orange-Free-State, the Transvaal, and Zululand, with the 
