462 General Notes. [July, 
of fresh-water shells. Several large masses of the conglomerate 
which forms the roof have fallen to the floor. While examining 
one which seemed to have fallen very recently, as it was not 
imbedded in the earth, I found enclosed in the rock, a land shell 
which has kindly been identified by Mr. W. G. Binney as Patula 
strigosa var. Haydeni. Further search failed to bring to light 
other specimens. 
The great thickness of the conglomerate above the position of 
the shell precludes the idea that the filling took place at a very 
recent period. The same species is now found living in abun- 
dance in the vicinity of the lake. Its presence as a fossil 
affected by climatic changes.—Leshe A. Lee. 
Tue Bauna Bastn.—M. Stephanesco, of Bucharest, has com- 
municated to the Geological Society of France a description of 
the geology of the region of the Iron Gate of the Danube, on the 
extreme west of Roumania. Azoic beds are extensively devel- 
oped on this part of the Danube, which are overlaid at one point 
by a band of Cambrian, which crosses the river below the gates. 
Lower down, a Tertiary formation appears, resting partly on the 
Azoic and partly on some secondary beds. Above the gates the 
Bahna creek enters from the north, after traversing a valley in 
which is situated the town of that name. This valley is excavated 
in upper and middle Miocene marine beds, which themselves 
form a synclinal series, with the opposing dips of 45° separated 
by a central fracture. M.Stephanesco points out that the rela- 
tions of these beds, lying as they do directly on the Azoic, 1s 
similar to that seen in the basins of Vienna, Bordeaux, Dax an 
prominents enamel smooth. The side of the face is concave, 
and there is a lachrymal fossa. The anterior border of the orbit 
i 
