Fish remains from the Wijde Bay Series of the Wijdefjorden area include (1) pteraspids, not previously recorded from so high an horizon, which appear to bear sensory canals upon the exterior surface of the ventral disc; (2) an Asterolepis, and (3) rhizodontid scales, resembling those of Holoptychius. A very large antiarch from an unknown horizon is also recorded.

Globular bodies, which may represent organic remains, are found in the Dalradian at a locality on the south-west side of Ben Vrackie. Their mode of occurrence, composition, and form are here described and their possible affinities are discussed.

New discoveries of marine Lower Miocene beds on the Tanganyika and Kenya coasts and on the adjacent larger islands are briefly described, and the palaeontological evidence establishing their age outlined. Previous palaeontological evidence has had to be reassessed, a considerable number of supposed Pliocene index fossils having been found to occur in the Lower Miocene. The “ Chlamys werthi Beds ” are shown to include strata of both Lower Miocene and Pliocene ages.

The exposed part of the metamorphic envelope on the south side of the Galway granite is described. It is characterized by the presence of pillow lavas and a thick greywacke series containing intraforma-tional conglomerates. This South Connemara Series is tentatively assigned to the Ordovician; such a correlation would require the Galway granite to be a laconic intrusion.

As a result of the drainage contest between the Weaver headstreams and the headstreams of the Trent the west facing edge of the Potteries coalfield has been breached in a number of places, in particular at Kidsgrove. During the last retreat of the ice the Kidsgrove breach came ultimately to act as a spillway for the large lake contained between the ice and the coalfield. Before the breach was uncovered, however, a number of spillways were cut further east.

The usefulness of plants in directing the attention of the archaeologist to likely sites of human occupation is well known. Their value to the geomorphologist is indicated in the following example, which puts on record the existence of stone stripes in Breckland.

Seismic refraction surveys of the rock channels of the River Erme (S. Devon) and the Rivers Tawe and Torridge (N. Devon) suggest that at the time these were eroded the sea-level relative to land stood some 150 ft. lower than at present. Echo-sounding and sea-bed sampling off S. Devon have failed to reveal any trace of ancient channels in the sea floor at distances greater than one mile from shore.

The East Asian Cretaceous lamellibranch genera Trigonioides and Hoffetrigonia are discussed after examining new material of the former, and the conclusion is reached that both belong to the Unionidae and not to the Trigoniidae. A proposal to include them in a new family is withdrawn.

Stromatolites found in Karagwe-Ankolean rocks on the Tanganyika-Uganda border occur in siliceous beds associated with cherty and ferruginous breccia without trace of calcareous material. Somewhat similar conditions prevail in beds of the Singo Series of Uganda from which Collenia-type structures have been recorded. Little stratigraphical value can be ascribed to the structures, but they are significant in pointing to the replacement character of some fine-grained siliceous beds which may explain the scarcity of limestone in the Pre-Cambrian sequence of Uganda.

All the bedded rocks outcropping within the fault-intrusion of Glencoe, south and west of Garbh Bheinn summit (2,835 feet, Text-fig. 1), are shown to be exotic. They probably represent down-sloped fragments of the now eroded roof of the intrusion. This change of interpretation completely invalidates the theory of rapid facies changes, proposed by the writer in 1952. New evidence relating to the remarkable thickness variation of the Binnein Quartzite on the eastern side of the Garbh Bheinn downfold is also discussed.