In presenting to our readers a brief notice of the life and work of Professor Seeley, one of the most eminent of Vertebrate Palæontologists, we feel that we are offering but a scant tribute to one who has for more than thirty years occupied a leading position in the world of science. He is not only an accomplished teacher in Geology and the allied sciences in the University of London, but has long been recognized as a distinguished worker in the fields of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. His investigations into the Fossil Reptilia of the Secondary period, and especially his remarkable researches in the Anomodont Reptilia from the Trias of South Africa, are already classic and-unsurpassed. His purely geological work in the field has also made substantial contributions to our knowledge of the strata in the South of England.

The following notes on three fossil plants handed to me by Dr. Hume have been written at the request of Capt. Lyons, Director-General of the Survey Department of Egypt. The material is unfortunately too fragmentary to admit of satisfactory determination; but in view of our ignorance in regard to the former vegetation of Egypt, it is desirable to put on record all available information. Of the three fossils only one is sufficiently well preserved to be referred with any degree of certainty to a genus.

As a worker among the Lower Palæozoic rocks of Wales I have for some years devoted a good deal of time to the study of Tremadoc and Arenig rocks, and in common with others have therefore often wished to check the results attained in that district of great thicknesses and tectonic complication by reference to the thinner and more fossiliferous series of the undisturbed areas of Northern Europe. When, therefore, the Senate of the University of Cambridge granted me the Worts Fund for travelling scholars, and instructed me to study the interrelationships of the Tremadoc and Arenig Series in Scandinavia, I at once took advantage of the opportunity, and spent the months of May, June, and July in hammering over those rocks in the field.

In venturing to offer some further criticisms on the interpretation of the phenomena presented by Norfolk geology published in the memoirs of the Geological Survey and elsewhere, I may state that these criticisms are the result of several visits to the county in which I have either drawn or made detailed notes of nearly every critical section along the coast.

By the kindness of Mr. Henry A. Allen, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England, three examples of Eurypterus, in clay-iron-stone nodules, showing impression and counterpart, together with a fragment of a fourth example, all from the Coal-measures to the north - west of Ilkeston, have been most obligingly lent me for description by their discoverer, Dr. L. Moysey, M.A., of St. Moritz, Ilkeston Road, Nottingham.