Mr. Teall, who was born on January 5, 1849, in the Oolitic region of the Cotteswolds, at Northleach, a small market town on the Fosse Way between Cirencester and Stow-on-the-Wold, was the only child of Jethro and Mary Teall (née Hathaway). His father inherited some landed property in East Kent, and resided after his marriage for about two months at Sandwich, where he died in 1848 of some epidemic that was raging in the place. Mrs. Teall then returned to her relations at Northleach, where her son was born.

In this Magazine for November Mr. Mellard Reade referred to the difficulty of imagining the adequacy of any known force to accomplish such tremendous effects as to produce overthrusts like those which have been lately described as occurring in the North-West Highlands, and he consequently appears to be a little doubtful of the reality of the phenomenon. I think, however, that the conclusion of so many competent field geologists must be accepted, and that our theories of mountain-building must be made to fit the facts rather than the facts the theories.

In a paper published in 1907, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, I described and figured, under the name Zamites grandis, sp. nov., some excellent specimens of detached leaves recently collected by my friend Mr. L. J. Wills, B.A., F.G.S., from the Keuper rocks of Bromsgrove (Worcestershire).

My friend Mr. F. H. Gravely during September, 1908, obtained from the ruins of an old wall at Doddington, near Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, the carapace of an Arthropod, the value of which he at once recognized. This specimen he has now presented to the Manchester Museum, and by his kindness I am enabled to offer a short description of it here.

In a former paper the writer endeavoured to show the connection between the sedimentary rocks of Singapore and certain rocks in Pahang. On the occasions when opportunities for geological work in Singapore have presented themselves numerous specimens of igneous rocks have been collected, and it is the purpose of the present paper to describe briefly the observations recorded. It is hoped that this will give some further idea of the geology of the island of Singapore; but apart from a general description the pyroxene - bearing rocks associated with the granite appear to the writer to require a note as being of exceptional petrological interest.

In the February and March issues of the Geological Magazine for 1908 I published a general account of the underground water-supply of the óasis of Kharga, in the Libyan Desert, and briefly referred to the influence of one bore on another.

Although the general path of the ice-sheet of the central valley of Scotland has been traced, no advantage has, up till now, been taken of the glacial distribution of boulders from a peculiar intrusive rock, which occurs in the Campsie Fells near Lennoxtown.