In 1892 I described, in conjunction with my colleague Mr. Horne, a peculiar rock, essentially composed of orthoclase and melanite, under the name of borolanite. The type-specimens came from the plutonic mass which lies to the north of Loch Borolan, in Sutherlandshire (1 in. sheet 101). During the preparation of the paper on borolanite our colleague Mr. Gunn discovered two dykes of a closely related rock traversing the Torridon Sandstone in the Coigach district of West Ross-shire. The rock of these dykes was described in an appendix to our paper. It contains nepheline and ægirine, in addition to orthoclase and melanite, and is therefore allied, both as regards mode of occurrence and mineralogical composition, to the Tinguaite group of Rosenbusch; but as melanite is an important constituent it was classed with the borolanites.

In 1896 I described some decapod Crustaceans found in the Cretaceous formation of Vancouver and adjacent islands, British Columbia, which, with the approval of Dr. G. M. Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., the Director, had been most kindly placed in my hands for examination by Dr. J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S., Palæontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada. They were referred by me to the genera Callianassa, Homolopsis, Palæocorystes, and Plagiolophus (see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1896, vol. lii, pp. 221–228, with 6 figures).

In addition to the remains of the large Anthracotheriod (Brachyodus africanus) described in the first part of this paper (Geol. Mag., Dec. IV, Vol. VI, 1899, p. 481), the collection of mammalian bones from the Lower Miocene of Moghara also includes portions of the skeleton of a small rhinoceros. Unfortunately this is very poorly represented, there being only an incomplete scapula and an atlas vertebra, and in the absence of any portion of the skull or teeth it is impossible to determine the species to which it may have belonged. As was pointed out in Part I, the age of the deposit is Burdigalien (Lowest Miocene), and it is therefore contemporary with the Sables de I’Orléanais and the fresh-water deposits of Eggenburg. From the latter no rhinoceros remains are recorded, but from the former several species seem to have been obtained. Of these only one, Aceratherium aurelianense, has been described and figured.

I am indebted to the Rev. Ashington Bullen, B.A. (London), F.G.S., for eight samples of sands and loams from the Plateau Gravel of Kent, which he has placed in my hands for examination with the microscope. They were carefully collected by Mr. B. Harrison, of Ightham; and for convenience they are here lettered A–H.

In taking my first walk over West High Down, near Freshwater Bay, in May of last year, I found that the ground had been ploughed up by traction engines drawing heavy guns to some new forts on the Needles Point, then in course of construction. Thinking that there might be some Neolithic implements turned up, I examined the ruts, when almost the first thing I saw was a Palæolithic implement. It was ovate in form, 3¼ inches long by 2⅜ inches broad, thin, very slightly twisted, well made and symmetrical though not elaborately finished, and ochreous and almost unabraded in condition. So far as I am aware, this is the first Palæolithic implement that has been found in the district.