Geology at the British Association. — (Jlaypole. ;UJ3 
and tedious to allow even a hope of its frecjuent employment. 
Prof. E. W. Claypole followed with two i)apers, one on the 
fossil cladodont sharks of Ohio and the other on the fossil 
placoderms of the same region. Both are of upper Devonian 
age and the species are too well known to require lengthy 
mention in this journal. 
Two or three reports on geological subjects closed the 
business of the section, which then adjourned to meet at Liv- 
erpool in 1896. 
A growing opinion is evident that for the geologists the 
proper and most instructive place for holding a session is out 
of duors, in the pits and quarries, and in accordance with this 
view more and more time is given to excursions to places of 
geological interest around the town of meeting, the sessions 
in the room being correspondingly shorter. Besides the trips 
already mentioned there followed on the Wednesday one to the 
coprolite beds lying on the London clay, and on the Thurs- 
day one to C'rfuner to see the pre-Glacial forest bed at the foot 
of the cliffs exposed at low tide only, another to see the col- 
lections at Cambridge as well as the other places of interest 
in that city, and a third to Brandon in Suffolk to see the "flint- 
knappers" at work. In this last named place the manufacture 
of flint tools of various kinds has been carried on continu- 
ously, or nearly so, from prehistoric to present time. The 
ground is filled and the surface is strewn with chips and flakes 
left by the old workers whose modern representations are em- 
ployed solely in the manufacture of gun-flints. 
Ipswich is one of the several English towns of its size, — 
about 60,000 people, — that possess an excellent museum, the 
geological department of which includes a very large and well 
arranged and named collection f)f the Tertiar^r fossils of East' 
Anglia, enabling visitors to name tlieir own s])ecimens. The 
condition and amount of labor that have been spent on the 
work are honorable alike to the town of Ipswich and to those 
of its citizens who have devoted their time aiul study to its 
geology. 
