188 The American Geologist. September, i8«2 
Bahnelement jener Meteoriten, deren Fallerscheinungen mit einiger 
Sicherheit beobachtet werden kounten, von G, v. Niessl. 
Die Hohlen des Harzes und ihre AusfuUiingen, von Dr. J. H. Kloos, 
pp. 24. From Abh.Ver. fur erdk. Magdeburg, 1892. 
Note Geologische e Studio "Cliimico-Petrografico sulla regions Trach- 
itica di Roccastrada, by R. V. Matteucci, pp. 50, with plates. Roma, 1892. 
Memoire della R. Accad. delle Sci. dell'Istituto di Bologna, 5th series. 
Tomo V contains: Zifioidi fossile e il Rostro di Dioplodonte della 
Farnesina presso Roma, by G. Capellini; Secondo contribute alia con- 
oscenza della microfauna terziaria italiana, by Carlo Fornasini; Nuove 
ricerche sulla melanoflogite della miniera Giona presso Racalmuto 
(Sicilia), by L. Bombicci. 
OORRESPO^DEIsrOE. 
Geology at the Meeting of the British Association at Edin- 
burgh. — For the fourth time in its history the B. A. A. S. has met in the 
northern capitol of the United Kingdom, this time under the presidency 
of the Director-General of the Geological Survey, Sir Archibald Geikie. 
The date was unusually early. Thus far the first half of September has 
been the time of holding this gathering,but an experiment was this year 
made of placing it one month earlier. Time will show if the experiment 
was successful or not. Probably the change is at least in part account- 
able for a rather smaller attendance than might have been expected at 
so prominent a centre of wealth and learning. Many people at this time 
are out of town and cannot well alter their time of being absent. The 
numbers at the four Edinburgh meetings have been as follows: 
1834, 1,298. 
1850, 1,241, 
1871, 2,463. 
1892, 2,070. 
The smaller number present had of course the result of lessening the 
amount available in special grants, a matter always to be regretted as 
this is one of the most effective ways in which the B. A. A, S. aids the 
work of investigation. However, a total of £1,000 was distributed among 
workers in the various sections. In geology the following sums were 
allotted: 
Prof. J. Prestwich, Erratic Blocks £10 
Rev. T. Wiltshire, Fossil Phyllopoda £ 5 
Prof. J. Geikie, Geological Photographs £10 
Prof. E. Hull, Underground Waters £ 5 
Mr, J, Home, Shell-deposits at Chapel-hall, &c. £20 
Dr. R. H. Traquair, Eurypterids of the Pentlands £10 
Sir A. Geikie took for the subject of his address, "The Centenary of 
Button's Theory of the Earth." He show^ed in the course of his remarks 
how much of our present geological systems was embodied in the "Theory" 
of this early writer, and how it has survived to the present day, after en- 
countering assault after assault from various quarters. 
