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VINE: CAEBONIFEEOUS POLYZOA. 
Localities : Devonian. Pilton (Phillips), Castleton ; Hurst, 
Richmond, Yorkshire ; Scotland, very generally distributed ; Nor- 
thumberland. 
There are still remaining a few doubtful species, in my own, and 
in Mr. Aitken's collection. I cannot work these into the present 
paper for they are without a local habitation, and the fragments are 
not in such a state of preservation as to allow me to do them justice. 
Now that attention has been directed to the Polyzoa of 
Derbyshire and North Yorkshire it is to be hoped that in the 
coming season for geological excursions some little attention will be 
given to the presence of these as well as to other, probably, more 
attractive groups of fossil remains. 
ON THE GEOLOGY OF PALESTINE. BY W. H. HUDLESTON, M.A., 
F.G.S., &C. 
In the original choice of the subject, two principal considerations 
influenced me. In the first place, there is no foreign country whose 
history and geography attract more attention from all classes than 
does the Holy Land. It seemed therefore certain that a previous 
geographical acquaintance with the region might induce some curi- 
osity as to its geological structure. And this brings me to the 
second consideration, which influenced my choice of a subject, viz., 
that Palestine — using the term in its widest geographical sense — 
contains within its borders some of the mosc remarkable features on 
the surface of the earth ; and, notably, that astounding fissure, the 
Dead Sea Basin, which probably has exercised the imagination of 
most of us for a long period, and which geology, of all the sciences, 
is the most competent to investigate. 
To facilitate reference, the subject has been divided into eight 
sections, as follows : — 
1. — History of the Investigation of the Region. 
2. — Physical Geography. 
, .3. — Geological Outline and Explanation of the ^La.p. 
4. — Beds older than the Cretacous Limestone. 
5. — The Cretacous and Nummulitic Limestones. 
6. — POST-NUMMULITIC (MaRINB) BeDS. 
7. — Volcanic Rocks. 
8. — Deposits of the Dead Sea Basin, 
