Among the great body of geologists, who are justly entitled by their work in this field of science to rank as “knights- commanders of the hammer,” there is no one more distinguished, as well for his active services as for the geniality of his disposition and his bonhomie, than the amiable and accomplished occupant of the Woodwardian Chair of Geology in the University of Cambridge, Professor T. McKenny Hughes.

This paper is primarily a record of observations made at Trimmingbam since those recorded in a pamphlet entitled “The Stratigraphy and Fauna of the Trimmingham Chalk.” But as the Polyzoa of the Trimmingham Chalk comprise a remarkably large number of species which appear to be at present undescribed and are very characteristic of this horizon, I have taken this opportunity of describing some of the most prominent of these forms, partly in the hope of directing the attention of other collectors to their range and partly to facilitate the classification of the very large quantity of material I have accumulated. I have also taken this opportunity of giving a list of species from the Chalk between Cromer and Weybourne.

In the maps and memoirs of the Geological Survey of Scotland there is frequent mention of raised beaches at 50 and 100 feet above the present sea - level. Mr. James Geikie, too, in his well-known book on the Great Ice Age, confidently assumes the existence of beaches at these two levels. It is therefore with some degree of reluctance that in the following remarks I venture to question the reality of these supposed beaches; but it will lessen the field of controversy if I confine my observations to theeast side of Scotland. Matters may probably differ somewhat in regard to the west side.

Some time since Mr. John T. Stobbs, F.G.S., obtained a very well-preserved impression in clay ironstone of the wing of a Neuropterous insect from the rich plant-bed at Foley, near Longton, North Staffordshire, which he very obligingly submitted to me for study. The geological horizon is that of the “Peacock Marl” (i.e., the marl overlying the Peacock Coal), and it therefore comes from near the top of the workable Coal-measures.

Until recently very little attempt has been made to classify the reptilian fossils of the Karroo Beds according to their geological horizons. Seeley recognised certain zones—(1) the zone of Mesosaurs, (2) the zone of Pareiasaurs, (3) the zone of Dicynodonts, (4) the zone of specialised Theriodonts, and (5) the zone of Zanclodonts. While the order of these zones is correctly given they do not cover the whole period, and the third zone is an unnatural one.

Having been asked by Dr. Smith Woodward and Dr. Bather to look over the collection of Irregular Echinoids from the English Chalk in the British Museum with a view to bringing the exhibition up to date, it appears a favourable opportunity to say a few words as to the nomenclature and distribution of these animals.

In the Autumn of 1904 we had the good fortune to find in the “Slates with inclusionsrdquo; at Porthluney, near Gorran, Cornwall, a lenticle of limestone which has yielded a small but satisfactory series of forms allowing its reference to the Wenlockian beds.