

146 Geological Society : — 



that : — no notice is taken of papers merely read before Societies, 

 but not published in the year concerned, — the abstracts and Prof. 

 Blake's notes thereon have been submitted to the authors, and 

 those which have been received back are marked with an asterisk. — 

 and a new feature is " the introduction of illustrations of all new 

 British species, and of other important novelties." 



On this last point we may observe that " the will may be taken 

 for the deed"; but that, though inadequate in very many instances 

 to define the characters of the intended fossils, the amateur out- 

 lines may serve as useful indications, to some extent, where the 

 descriptive memoirs cannot be got at. The two maps (pis. i. and 

 ii.), though roughly executed, seem to be more available for their 

 intended purpose. 



As the asterisk placed before the No. of an Article indicates 

 that the abstract has been seen and corrected by the Author or 

 Editor of its memoir, we may notice that fifteen articles are indi- 

 cated in the Table of Corrections as being entitled to these asterisks, 

 as well as the very many (the majority) of the abstracts standing 

 in the text with those marks. Important corrections appear (from 

 the List of Corrigenda) to have been fortunately made by the 

 authors in some of these abstracts after the printing. 



The " Personal Notes " of the former volume are now limited to 

 critical footnotes. These are always suggestive, and not unfre- 

 quently decidedly useful. 



Some of the articles are, relatively, of considerable length ; for 

 instance no. 6 (Murray and Eenard) has 17 pages ; no. 321 (A. S. 

 Woodward) 7 pages; no. 33tL (JR. B. Newton) 9 pages. The 

 " Personal Items" about the Staff and Officers of the Societies 

 and Institutions are discontinued. The two Indexes (of Authors and 

 Periodicals) are given, and one of new names. If the geographical 

 and the geological points were indexed, we think advantages would 

 accrue ; and we venture to suggest that the cost of the plates 

 might be saved to that end in the next volume. 



The masterly (if not also masterful) manner in which the 

 numerous memoirs are treated is well sustained, and tends always 

 to indicate then interest, and often to advance their usefulness. 

 Evidently no pains have been spared by the enthusiastic author in 

 earnestly carrying out his plan of diffusing a correct knowledge of 

 current British Geology, and of the work of British Geologists, 

 among all who are interested in the Science. 



XIX. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 

 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 f Continued from p. 76.] 

 November 23rd, 1892.— W. H. Hudleston, Esq., 1LA., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 

 ^T^HE following communications were read : — 

 -*- 1. "Outline of the Geological Features of Arabia Petraea and 

 Palestine." By Prof. Edward Hull, LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



The region may be considered as physically divisible into five 



