BRIMSTONE HILL, 779 feet high, on the north-west side of the island of St. Kitts, or St. Christopher, about a third of a mile from the sea, lies about 2½ miles south-west of Mount Misery, the culminating point, which is said to be 3,711 feet high and to have a crater lake. Several other peaks of the island rise to over 1,000 feet, and to the south-east of Mount Misery another weathered cone is Mount Olivees, 2,781 feet high. About 12 miles to the north-west of St. Kitts is the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, or Statia, a dormant volcanic cone about 594 metres high on the south-west side of which great slabs of white sedimentary rock, called the White Wall, are seen tilted up against the side to a height of 315 metres. Further still to the north-west is the volcanic cone of Saba. South-east of St. Kitts, and nearly adjoining it is Nevis, which consists of a central cone and several subsidiary craters. These islands—Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, and Nevis—lie in a slightly curved line in a north-west and south-east direction.

A RECENT communication from Mr. E.H. Davison relating to the possible age of the “ Lundy Island granite ” is interesting as affording several points of contrast with the results of detailed researches in structural and petrological characters of this some-what inaccessible island in the Bristol Channel, which the author has been carrying out for some time.

DURING the International Excursion for the study of the Pre-Cambrian held in Finland, July-August, 1931, a visit was paid to the outcrop of Bothnian conglomerates near Jaakkola, Suodenniemi, west of Tammerfors (Tampere). The excursion to Jaakkola was led by Professor Sederholm and Mr. Mikkola.

SINCE the publication of my paper on the fauna of the Anthracolithic Limestone of Oomi-mura, Province of Echigo, Central Japan, I have added to my collection fresh material from this locality, collected either by myself or by others. Among this is an astraeiform coral to which I wish to draw attention since such corals are everywhere uncommon in the Carboniferous and, as far as Japan is concerned, is the first to be recorded. The specimen is only a small fragment, its polished transverse surface measuring not more than 2 cm. by 2 cm. Unfortunately the coral is in an unsatisfactory state of preservation so that its structural details are difficult to decipher. However, from a careful examination of the polished surface and of thin sections cut from the coral I am inclined to regard it as a species of Orionastraea Smith, a genus which hitherto has only been known to occur in the Carboniferous rocks of the British Isles.

A SMALL Arthropod was discovered by one of us (S. H. J.) in the course of investigations of the Coal Measures of the area around Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, on the north crop of the South Wales Coalfield. It is preserved in a fine grained, light blue shale from the roof of the Little Vein (lower part of the Pulchra Zone of Davies and Trueman), at the Blaina Colliery, Pantyffnon, about one mile south-west of Ammanford. The specimen is in the collection of the University College of Swansea, No. A. 152.

THE foraminifera described were collected by the author while employed by the Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilfields, Limited, by whose kind permission the following notes are published.