The recent answer to the recent questioning of the hitherto accepted correlations of the beds of the Lower Fluvio-Marine Tertiaries in the Isle of Wight and South Hants does not seem to be universally accepted as decisive. It is obviously impossible for foreign geologists to institute useful comparisons between British and foreign subdivisions so long as we in England are quite at variance on the stratigraphical and palæontological facts of the beds in question. Yet these conflicting readings are what we have to offer them at present.

Last Autumn, on our way to St. Cassian and the Dolomites, we remained for two or three days in the Eifel. The little town of Gerolstein is well known to all geologists. Mr. Winter, one of the inhabitants, who pays considerable attention to the natural history of the place, was kind enough to present me with a nodule which, though apparently it is very insignificant, yet, on further examination, seems of great interest; it contains, in fact, part of the scale of a Pteraspidean. Any one who has worked amongst the Old Red Sandstone fishes of Monmouthshire and Herefordshire will at once recognize many of the characteristics of the Pteraspidean scales.

No luminous meteor appears to have been observed at the time these stones fell; the day was bright and sunny and the sky cloudless. A sound as of platoon-firing was heard, and a small shower of black stones descended, some within the area of the village of Zsadány in the courtyards of the inhabitants, others in the open fields. They did not fall together, but at slight intervals, which appear to have been at least one-third of a minute. Some were picked up immediately they reached the ground, and were found to be cold. It may be mentioned here that the stones which fell at Dhurmsala, in India (1860, July 4th), are stated to have been so cold that they could not be held in the hand.

The occurrence of Fish-remains among the “Forest Bed” Vertebrata attracted the attention of some of the earlier writers on Norfolk Geology; but it is only within the last few years that any of these fish have been specifically determined. Mr. A. Bell in the Proceed, of the Geol. Assoc. 1871, included the Pike and Perch in his list of “Forest Bed” Vertebrata, and the same two species are given by Mr. A. Savin in the Proceed, of the Norwich Geol. Soc. for 1878, p. 27. The fish mentioned by Sir C. Lyell from Mundesley (Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag. ser. 3, vol. xvi. p. 345, 1840) were from the Post-Glacial River Bed.

A few words of explanation are required to enable those not familiar with the Carnarvon district fully to appreciate the importance of Prof. Bonney's confirmation of the view respecting the age of the Twt Hill conglomerate first put forward by Prof. Hughes, and afterwards advocated by myself. The controversy possesses a general interest, apart from the fact that the stratigraphical position of a certain bed is now fixed, inasmuch as it shows how cautious it is needful to be in dealing with these ancient rocks without the most thorough and careful mapping of the whole area.

During the year 1871, in connexion with his duties upon the Geological Survey of Sweden, Linnarsson made a careful study of the Lower Palaeozoic strata of Dalarne and Jemtland, publishing the fruits of his observations in the following year. Dalarne had been already most successfully investigated by Dr. Sven. Törnquist; but Linnarsson, familiar with details of the better known succession in Westrogothia, was enabled to throw much new light upon the crumpled and shattered strata of this region.