It is now fifteen years since the appearance of the second edition of the late Professor Jukes's memoir on the Geology of the South Staffordshire Coal-field. The author observed in his preface that a revision of his work had been rendered necessary by the opening of many new mines and cuttings of various kinds which had afforded fresh information on points that had previously been obscure. He mentioned, for instance, certain red clays and sandstones occurring at Walsall Wood, and at other places which were at first supposed to belong to the New Red Sandstone, afterwards believed to be Permian, but were ultimately decided to be Coal-measures.

Group 4.—Spire moderately long, generally without carinæ, always ribbed transversely. Wing expanded and quadrate, prolonged posteriorly into a sharp point.

Mr. T. Beesley, in a “Sketch of the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Banbury,” 2nd edit., 1873, published a very extensive list of Liassic fossils, and having been honoured by the loan of many of them, the majority in an excellent state of preservation, I beg to record the presence of a few interesting forms, and to describe some new species.

In the months of May, June, and October, 1855, and again in July, 1856, Stromboli was visited by M. C. Ste.-Claire Deville. He fully confirms the great variations in the intensity of the explosions of the volcano.

A brilliant meteor was observed by Serpieri at the Observatory of Urbino, which left a persistent streak. It was attended by an explosion.

When I sent the above paper to the Geological Magazine, I was not aware that a Sketch of the Geology of the Isle of Man, by Mr. John Home, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of Scotland, had been published in the Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society.