Since the publication of my last notes on the Vertehrata of the Norfolk “Forest-Bed” in this Magazine, several new forms have been identified, and we are now under obligation to Mr. W. Barker and Mr. A. Savin, whose diligent search in these beds has brought to light four species not hitherto recorded; three of them are bones of Birds, and therefore especially interesting, as so few remains of this class have been determined from British Pre-Glacial deposits. I have to thank Prof. Stewart and Dr. Garson for the facilities they have afforded me on this, as on other occasions, when comparing specimens in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons; and for similar assistance at the British Museum I am indebted to Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe and Mr. Oldfield Thomas.

The exploration of the caves in the Vale of Clwyd, and the conclusions announced by Dr. Hicks at the last meeting of the British Association, have naturally aroused much interest; for if the facts are rightly interpreted by Dr. Hicks, and the deposits which are banked up against the north-western end of the cave are really of Glacial age, then it is clear that the contents of the cave date from a time anterior to the great submergence during which those deposits were formed.

The occupation of Britain by Ice-sheets in Pleistocene times has been established by the researches of Sir A. Eatnsay, Dr. J. Geikie, Messrs. Peach and Home, Tiddeman, Goodchild, and others. At the time that these inquirers made their observations, the very complex nature of the phenomena of the Greenland ice-sheet was hardly recognized, and many difficulties arose, upon which considerable light is thrown by a knowledge of the work of a modern icesheet.

Considerable attention has been given of late years to the faunas of the rocks in North America considered to be the equivalents of the rocks usually classed as Cambrian in this country, and the facts which have been obtained are particularly interesting to British geologists. Two recent communications by Mr. C. D. Walcott, Palaeontologist to the U. S. Geological Survey, are especially deserving of study in reference to the classification of these rocks, and many facts of importance bearing on the same question are also given in papers by Mr. G. F. Matthew, of St. John's, N.B.

It has been acknowledged by botanists that the methods generally pursued in determining fossil dicotyledonous plants have been scarcely such as were likely to lead to trustworthy results. Their study has, or should have, two practical aims. The one, that geologists may be able to determine the ages of strata, when they only contain fossil plants, with as much certainty as if they contained the remains of animals. The other, that botanists may be able to trace the evolution of the existing genera of plants from the pala?ontological record under conditions no less favourable than those at the disposal of the zoologist.

During last summer it was my good fortune to visit the three largest snowfields in Norway, namely, Folgefond, at the head of Hardangerfjord, in Southern Norway, whose area is 108 square miles; the Jostedalsfond, two degrees to the northward, and beyond Sognefjord, whose area is 580 square miles, and the largest snowfield in Europe; and the Svartisen, of nearly equal area, extending from just inside the Arctic Circle for 44 miles to the northward. All of these snowfields send down glaciers to within from 50 to 1200 feet of the sea.

In the last Number of the Geological Magazine there is published a paper by Mr. Robert F. Tomes dealing with two Corals from the Silurian rocks of Britain. For the reception of one of these Corals Mr. Tomes proposes to form a new genus under the name of Hemiphyllum.