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quartzo-felspatliic grit bearing some resemblance to 95, but 
more decomposed, and looking as if it was truly Permian. 
(105.) A rather angular fragment from Overseal, of a quartz 
felspar grit similar to the two following specimens. (48.) A 
rock consisting of small, moderately-angular grains of quartz 
and felspar, often decomposed, including a little microcline. 
Two or three grains of tourmaline, and perhaps one of zircon, 
are present in the slide, with a flake or two of mica. No 
lava fragments can be recognised with certainty. (69.) 
Rather subaugular in form—a hard, fine-grained quartz-grit 
with some felspar. I think this rock, like the last, occurs 
also in the Trias. (101.) Along, irregular-shaped,but slightly 
rounded fragment from Overseal, of a rather felspathic 
quartzite. A similar rock occurs in the Trias. (100.) From 
Overseal, a very fine-grained quartzite, pierced with tubes of 
irregular form (? annelid). This rock is something like, but 
much finer-grained than, the well-known quartzite of N. W. 
Scotland. (87.) A subangular fragment of a fine-grained 
quartzose rock, rather like the last, but without distinct 
tubes. (66.) From Boothorpe, a fine-grained quartzite. It 
reminds me of some of that in the Bunter, though the out¬ 
side has a very different appearance, being dimpled, the result, 
I suppose, of weathering. Some other specimens are appar¬ 
ently fragments from veins or similar formations—one (25), 
is a nodule of chalcedony, which encloses a few fragments, 
in two cases apparently felspar, in the others possibly a 
volcanic rock silicified, or a slate, suggesting that the mineral 
was deposited within such a rock; two (127, 128), are quartz 
with more or less haematite ; others are a jasper-like material, 
including one from Stanton. 
(To be continued.) 
NATURAL HISTORY JOTTINGS IN NATAL.* 
BY ARTHUR HUNT. 
There are few branches of Natural History, if any, that 
can offer such a diversity in form, colour, or habits as that 
presented by “Insect Life and to a lover of that branch 
there is, here (Natal), every opportunity for studying the many 
curious and interesting sights that one comes across, be it in 
that particular branch or amongst animals, birds, or flowers. 
A man must be a mere “ collector ” who can pass by a lovely 
bird or noble tree and say “It is not in my line.” 
* Read before the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, February 10th, 1891. 
