Having received an invitation from Mr. W. Stoddart to examine the collection of his late father, Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.G.S., at Sneyd Park, Clifton, Bristol, I availed myself of the opportunity to do so in April last, and was interested in finding, among many other good British fossils, a new and undescribed Crustacean belonging to the genus Eryon, from the Stonesfield Slate of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.

The wooden defences which protected the cliff opposite the Alexandra Hotel at Bridlington Quay having been removed last autumn, preparatory to the erection of a more substantial concrete wall, a section was, for a short time, exposed which had long been hidden (see section P1. VIII. p. 537). The length of this section was a little over 1,000 feet, extending from Sands Cut to Carr Lane; its average height was about 30 feet.

[M. C. Struckmann, who has already published an elaborate treatise on the Upper Jura of the neighbourhood of Hanover, has communicated to the “Neues Jahrbnch für Mineralogie, etc.” (1881, Bd. II. pp. 77–102), a comparison, founded mainly upon palæontological evidence, between the Upper Jurassic deposits of that district and England, and a statement of the conclusions at which he arrives will be interesting to many English geologists.

The International Geological Congress had its origin at Philadelphia in 1876, when, largely by the influence of Prof. Jas. Hall and Dr. Sterry Hunt, arrangements were made for a meeting of the Congress at Paris. This was held during the months of August and September, 1878, as one of a great series of International Congresses, embracing all branches of Science and the technical applications of the same. The full reports of these meetings are contained in 32 8vo. volumes; that on Geology forming No. 21 of the Series. In the Geological Congress papers were read and discussed on numerous subjects connected with the science.