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Fossil Ferns in the Coal Shales. By the Editor. {With a Plate.) . . .361 

 Correspondence : — 



Older Parian in Trinidad . . . . . . . . • • • 363 



Former Higher Temperature of the Earth v. Atmospheric Pressure . . . 364 



British Association Meeting at Newcastle : — 



President's Address on the Northumberland Coal-fields . . . . . 364 

 Coke, Coal, and Mining in Northumberland and Durham. By Messrs. Wood, 



Tayloe, and Maelet . . 369 



Fossil Teeth of Horse at Stockton. By Mr. J. Hogg 369 



Magnesian Limestone of Durham. By Messrs. Foestee and Daglish . . 369 



Skiddaw Slate Fossils. By Professor Haekness .370 



New Coal Plants from Nova Scotia, By Dr. Dawson 370 



Contortions in Mica Schist. By Mr. H. C. Soebt . . . . . 370 



Sulphur in Corfu. By Professor Ansted ....... 371 



Porphyritic Bock of Charnwood Forest. By Professor Ansted . . . 371 



Books of the Malvern Hilis. By Mr. H. E. Hold 372 



Ironstones in the West of England. By Mr. C. Mooee . . . . . 372 

 Organic Contents of Lead Veins. By Mr. C. Mooee ..... 372 

 Organic Bemains of North Staffordshire Coal-fields. By Mr. Mullens . . 374 

 Lower Triassic Bocks of Devonshire. By Mr. W. Pengelly .... 374 

 Earthquakes and Yolcanic Eruptions. By Mr. J. A. Davles . . . 375 



Early Conditions of the Earth. By Bev. J. Beodie 375 



Identification of Bivalve Shells. By Mr. H. Seelet 375 



On the Pennine Fault, By Mr. W. Bainbeidge 376 



Cumberland Coal-fields and New Bed Sandstone. By Mr. M. Dunn . . 377 



Artificially-produced Quartzites. By Mr. A. Beyson 378 



Antiquity of Man. By Professor Phillips 378 



Drift Beds at Mundesley. By Professor Phillips 379 



Mammalian Bemains in Oxfordshire. By Mr. G. E. Bobeets . . . 380 

 Hydrography of the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes. By Dr. Hulbubt . 380 

 Composition of Granites of Donegal. By Messrs. Scott, Geifeith, and Hatjghton 381 

 Prismatic Structure in Basalts. By Professor James Thompson . . . 382 



Fossil Fishes of the Permian. By Mr. J. W. Kiekby 383 



Upper Tertiary of Bohuslan. By Dr. A. W. Malm .383 



Drift of Durham. By Messrs. N. Wood and Boyd 384 



Permian Bocks of North- West of England. By Sir E. I. Muechison . . 385 

 Fossil Salamander. By Dr. Geinitz . . . . . . . . 386 



Bock Salt at Middlesbro'. By Mr. J. Mabley . .... . . 387 



Bothriolepis from Devonian of Elgin. By Mr. Gr. E. Bobeets . . .389 

 New Star-fish from Mountain Limestone of Northumberland. By Mr. G. Tate . 390 



Weardale Iron Ores. By Mr. Chaeles Attwood 391 



Section from Hownes Gill to Cross Fell. By Mr. Sopwith .... 391 



On the Neanderthal Skull. By Professor W. King 391 



Fish-Bemains of Coal-Measures of Northumberland and Durham. By Messrs. 



Atthey and Kiekby • 392 



Notes and Queries : — 



Stricldandia acuminata. By Mrs. Steickland. {With a Plate.) . . .395 

 Fossil Mammalia and Flint Implements. By Dr. Blackmoee .... 395 

 Mammalian Bemains in Bussia 396 



Foreign Intelligence : — 



Professor Capellini on Antiquity of Man 398 



The Ophite of the Pyrenees 400 



