During an extended study of the glacial phenomena of the above area, which includes the drainage of the Rivers Derwent and Greta, and the drainage basin of Bassenthwaite Lake, several features of general interest were found which it is proposed to outline here.

In the erection of a new home of rest—St. Monica's, in the grounds of what was formerly Cote House, near the top of Westbury Hill, an interesting section1 of the upper part of the Old Red Sandstone and of the lower Avonian rocks up to the top of Zx was exposed in digging the foundations. Although the section lies only a little over a mile north-east of the Avon section and the general succession of the two is very similar, the Westbury section is of considerable interest, particularly as certain levels were well seen which are not exposed in the Avon section. In all the following tables the strata are described from below upwards.

Along certain of the coast sections in the province of Manabi, Ecuador, a series of large igneous boulders (of a coarse granitic type) occurs in situ among normal Tertiary sandstones. Tertiary sediments form the greater part of the “littoral” or coast belt of this country. One of the masses of rock referred to above had a weight, at least, of twenty tons—an exceptional size for an undoubted constituent member of a sandstone or a conglomerate.

Although the full account of the Geological work carried out by the St. George Expedition to the Pacific must await the working out of the specimens collected, the following brief preliminary notes may be of interest.