It has been known for more, than a hundred years past that a small tract of Upper Carboniferous rocks occurs in North-West Gloucestershire, between May Hill and the Malverns. The beds crop out in the neighbourhood of Newent, a village lying some ten miles to the north-west of Gloucester. The field, however, is almost entirely concealed beneath Triassic rocks. The measures are productive, and have been worked at various periods on a small scale, though the greater portion of the basin remains to this day unexplored.

In a previous paper it was shown that one prominent topographical feature of the Tarntal district, the great cirque called the ‘Grübl’,. could be explained as the effect of erosion by a short icetongue which formed when the snow-line persisted for a time at about 2400 metres above sea-level. The basin-shaped hollow of the Upper Tarntal was held to be due to another stand of the snow-limit at 2650 metres. It remains to be seen whether these conclusions are supported by evidence of a similar nature collected over a wider area.

Zoœcia large, subpyriform, with broad margins sloping slightly inwards and expanding at the foot into a short front wall; areas elliptical, length ·5 to ·75 mm., breadth ·31 to ·45 mm., tapering towards the head, across which stretches a slight internal shelf, which straightens the apparent outline; from the edge of this shelf hangs a stout oval ring, which connects it with the floor of the zoœcium; zoœcial boundaries distinct.

Being prevented by other work from continuing at present my work on the Danian (Laramie) Dinosaurs of Transylvania, I wish briefly to draw attention to the fact that the Upper Cretaceous Titanosaurus, as known from the Montagne Noire in France and from the Cretaceous formation of Argentina, and perhaps also from East Africa (as already pointed out by Fraas), has nothing to do with the Sauropoda, but belongs to the Trachodontid Orthopods, as proved by the abundant Transylvanian material at my disposal.

Bryn-y-groes Lode.—About 500 yards east of the Clogau lode, there is a parallel lode which has been worked for copper. Striking 50° east of north, its outcrop may be traced for about 1½ miles; its width is very variable. Chalcopyrite and pyrites and a little gold are present in the quartz. The lode is confined to the Vigra Beds, and running with the beds, it is associated throughout its length with greenstone sills.

Vertebrate-Remains are by no means abundant in the Inferior-Oolite rocks of the Cotteswold Hills and Bath—Doulting Distriet. Mr. H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., has written—

“The Inferior Oolite Series has yielded a rich and varied Invertebrate fauna, but the remains of Saurians and Fishes are very rare.

“The Reptilia that have been found include Megalosaurus and Steneosaurus, and the Fishes are represented by Hybodus, Strophodus, etc.”

Allusion has been made in a previous paper to the crinoidal limestone band and Transition bed at Billesdon Coplow, and to the existence of the former at Tilton Hill near Lowesby Station. At the latter place, though the Transition-bed is not exposed in situ, the position of the crinoidal limestone bed (after making full allowance for Drift deposits), is low enough, with beds normally horizontal or with a slight easterly dip, to adduce without any doubt the extension of the Transition-bed above it at this point. Thus the crinoidal limestone band had been traced at three points — Tilton (vide Wilson, ibid.), Billesdon Coplow, Tilton Hill—in the southern portion of the exposed area of the Rock-bed in Leicestershire, up to the time when the second paper, contributed by the author dealing with this bed in Leicestershire, was written. That is to say, it had only been found in the southern series of bold escarpments or spurs into which the district is divided. For the Twyford brook, running more or less west and east, divides the two series to which reference is directly made into a northern and a southern series, or if we include the Belvoir, Stathern, Eastwell, Holwell, and Waltham tract still more to the north, into three, with a central tract north of the Twyford brook.

One mile and a half east of Amroth a small valley which opens on the coast of Carmarthen Bay at Marros shows drift deposits of much interest. The valley itself is noteworthy. Like several others in the vicinity it is deeply cut in comparison with its width; the gradient of the valley sides is as high as 1 in 2, and the depth below the bordering hills is not less than 300 feet. The stream, which now drains the valley, rises on Marros Mountain, barely 2 miles from the shore, and flows down the main dip-slope of the Coal-measures, which here are greatly disturbed by folds and faults.