BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



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mittee was read. The only paragraph of interest to the Geolo- 

 gist, refers to the publication of a report on the Radiata and 

 Mollusca of the ^gean and Red Seas, which we therefore 

 insert. 



" 1 . The Council having learnt that it had been the inten- 

 tion of the Committee of the Geological Section, at the 

 meeting at Plymouth, to have proposed to the Committee 

 of Recommendations that Mr. Edward Forbes should be 

 requested to draw up a Report on the Radiata and Mollusca 

 of the Mgean and Red Seas, and that 60/. should be placed 

 at his disposal for expenses connected therewith, but that 

 from a circumstance purely accidental this proposition had 

 not been submitted to the Committee of Recommendations : 

 and being also informed that Mr. Edward Forbes was then 

 in the localities referred to, and willing if requested, to pro- 

 secute the researches and furnish the Report in question, 

 the Council passed the following resolution, viz : — 



" That Mr. Edward Forbes be requested to draw up for 

 the British Association a Report on the Radiata and Mol- 

 lusca of the JEgean and Red Seas, with special reference to 

 the relation of the recent genera and species to those which 

 have hitherto been supposed to exist only in a fossil state." 



With regard to the grant of 60/. which it had been the 

 intention of the Sectional Committee to have recommended, 

 the Council were of opinion that the exigency would be 

 provided for in the least exceptionable manner, by request- 

 ing the Treasurer to place that sum at Mr. Forbes' disposal, 

 on the guarantee of individual members of the Council that 

 the amount should be made good by private subscription 

 amongst themselves, in the event of a grant failing to pass 

 the Committee of Recommendation or the General Com- 

 mittee, when it should be brought forth at Manchester.^' 



We shall depart in this instance from the ordinary routine 

 of inserting the dates of the several meetings of the dif-= 



