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rable abundance in the Coprolite-workings in the Red Crag of Suffolk, 

 and are usually much water- worn and eroded, as if the bed in which 

 they were originally deposited had undergone subsequent denuda- 

 tion on some later Tertiary sea-beach. They often appear to have 

 been bored into by Pholades. 



Twenty-three articles appear in the last three numbers of the 

 ' Geological Magazine.' Of these the most important are : " On the 

 Sequence of the Glacial Beds," by Searles V. Wood, jun. ; " On 

 Lithodomous Perforations," by J. Rofe, F.G.S. ; "The Millstone 

 Grit of the North Wales Border," by D. C. Davies ; " The Character 

 of Lavas," by G. Poulett Scrope, F.R.S. ; " On Faults in Strata," 

 by W. T. Blanford and by G. H. Kinahan ; " New Zealand Plesio- 

 saurs," by Professor Owen ; " Boulder-Clay," by Mr. James Geikie ; 

 " Banded and Brecciated Concretions/' by Dr. Ruskin. If Mr. 

 Searles Wood, jun., can only induce the Geological Survey to adopt 

 his classification for the later deposits of our island, much of our 

 misery and uncertainty about the Contorted Drift and Boulder-Clay 

 ends, and we may find a place for every pebble-bed and drift-deposit 

 which we meet with, and can colour it at once. 



But the Geological Survey are not converted, although they will, 

 doubtless, gladly adopt much of Mr. S. V. Wood, jun.'s, admirable 

 work on East Anglian surface-geology, when they come to Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, and Essex. 



Mr. Scrope continues his favourite theme, the character of Lavas. 

 We hear, by-the-by, that he is arranging with Mr. Archibald Geikie 

 a descent upon the Lipari Islands and Stromboli this summer, so we 

 may look for a new view of modern volcanoes from a leading man of 

 the day in Geology. 



Pkoceedings of the Geological Society of London. 



The present number of the ' Quarterly Journal ' of this Society 

 deals in Australian Geology and Palaeontology. On Dinosaurian 

 Reptiles and their affinity with Birds. The evidence afforded by 

 corals as to the physical geography of Western Europe in Secondary 

 and Tertiary times. The Brachiopoda of the Budleigh-Salterton 

 pebble-bed. A comparison of the Boulder-clay of the North of 

 England with that of the South. On the Graphite of the Lauren- 

 tian of Canada. On the Geology of the country around the Gulf 

 of Cambay. On the Rodents of the Somersetshire Caves. 



With rocks of Secondary age in Australia we have been hitherto 

 unacquainted, and there seemed good reason to believe that this 

 remarkable country held its head above water through the Mesozoic 

 period. 



Mr. Charles Moore has, however, brought before us evidence of 



