The first geological map of Scotland has a history not less interesting than that of Smith's famous map of England; seeing that what Smith accomplished, single-handed, for the southern part of Britain, John Macculloch did, with the same independence of all extraneous aid, for the northern half of the Island. Smith's fame has happily been long since vindicated; but, owing to a variety of circumstances, Macculloch has never received full credit for his grand work; on the contrary, his fair name and even his veracity have been too often cruelly aspersed.

The first collection of Egyptian fossils sent for determination by Captain Lyons, R.E., Director of the Egyptian Geological Survey, to the British Museum, includes an interesting series of Echinoidea, which has been intrusted to me for examination. It is hardly necessary to state that our knowledge of the fossil echinid faunas of Egypt is mainly due to M. P. de Loriol-le-Fort, who has described a large series in two admirable monographs.

The great sheet of Chalk which, with the subjacent Greensand and Gault, stretches through so large a part of Southern England and underlies the whole of the Hampshire Basin, terminates abruptly in West Dorset. There is no doubt that the Upper Cretaceous rocks once spread continuously over the Jurassic hills east of Bridport and across the Vale of Marshwood, and were united to the corresponding beds in East Devon, where the Chalk and Greensand are so conspicuous in the cliffs near Beer Head.

In a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for 1893, I gave an account of the evidence that led me to conclude that certain conglomerates and associated rocks occurring for some distance north-east and south-west of Llanberis, which had hitherto been considered to lie below the workable Cambrian Slates of that area, were in reality unconiormable deposits of a later date than those slates. in the year 1894 Professor T. G. Bonney and Miss 0. Raisin published in the same Journal a controversial paper criticizing my statements and conclusions.