The specimens submitted to me were obtained by Dr. E. O. Teale in the Tanga Hinterland in the Tanganyika Territory from beds assigned by Bornhardt to the Stormberg series of the Karroo system. Tanga is situated approximately on Lat. 5° S. Owing to the imperfect state of preservation and the fragmentary nature of the specimens, which occur as impressions on a hard lazninated arenaceous shale, it is impossible to express with confidence an opinion on the precise geological horizon of the beds or to assign all the fossils to a definite position in the vegetable kingdom.

Western Yugoslavia, which broadly corresponds to the ancient Roman province of Illyricum, includes Dalmatia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro, together with the western portions of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia. It is a region of high geological interest, for within it and the adjoining portions of Italy the “Carso” or“Karst” lands are developed on a scale perhaps unequalled elsewhere. Considerable attention has been devoted from time to time to their leading features by Austrian, Italian, and Serbian geologists, though the study of these land forms has hitherto received but little attention in England. No excuse therefore seems necessary for drawing attention to some of the more salient features of this interesting district.

The age of the Hirnant Beds has for a long time been a matter of uncertainty, occurring as they do at the junction of the Ordovician with the Silurian. They were originally included by Sedgwick in his “Upper Bala”, and in the Memoir of the Geological Survey on North Wales they are grouped with the Bala, and therefore in a modern classification would be relegated to the Ordovician. In 1879, however, Ruddy stated that the grits representing the gritty facies of these beds in the northern part of the area were the same as those coloured Lower Llandovery on the Geological Survey map, and he then held this view of their age, though later, in 1885, the placed them at the top of the “Caradoc or Bala Series”. Hughes also regarded the Hirnant Beds as representing the base of the Silurian, though he regarded the Ashgill Shales of Fairy Gill and elsewhere as Ordovician. Marr has also always regarded the Ashgill Shales of Fairy Gill as “Upper Bala”, and has included them in his Ashgillian division at the top of the Ordovician. It is perhaps significant that Salter in his Catalogue includes the fossils from both sets of beds in the “Upper Bala”, but divides this into two: (a) The Hirnant Limestone and Llanfyllin Beds. (b) The Llandovery (Lower Llandovery of the Survey).

Other Localities.—Eight feet of loamy sand have been found in Walton Park Hotel garden, and are banked against the cliffs about 330 yards south-west of Ladye Bay. Mr. G. E. Male has lately found what he considers to be the same sands on the southern slopes of Worle Hill at Weston-super-Mare. Beyond Yatton there is some obscure stony sand in a gap of Cadbury Hill, near Cleve, and a trace of sand on the summit which cannot have been derived from waste of the limestones. No other signs of these deposits have yet been detected in Somerset, so far as I am aware, away from the Clevedon ridges, though traces of them may be looked for on the southern slopes of the Mendip and other adjacent hills

The geology of Jamaica compared with that of some areas of the earth's crust is neither very involved nor very difficult of interpretation. Considering the length of time that has elapsed since it was first studied and the easy accessibility of many parts of the island, it should be fairly well known and should form a key for the interpretation of the structure of the larger and less well-known islands of Haiti and Cuba, and also of Porto Rico and the smaller islands forming the group of the Greater Antilles.