Science-gossip . Gradually lower beds are exposed, lill is ind crops up, then 1 Gi < lhalk and Chalk Marl. Fossils found in the llythe Beds ten cineta, Lima cottaldina, Cy ngulata, Cardita fenestriata, Cucitllaea txaltata, Trigonia, Panopaeaplicata, Thetis fyii, Gervillia and Terehratula sella. The Sandgate Beds contain but few fossils, but in the Folkestone Beds there are large Exog) 1 innata. The Chalk Marl is much faulted; in some placi il ouches the shore, and in others ii is ten or twelve feet above it. Fossils found in the Gault Inoceramus concentricus, /. sulcatns, Nitatla pect
Science-gossip . Gradually lower beds are exposed, lill is ind crops up, then 1 Gi < lhalk and Chalk Marl. Fossils found in the llythe Beds ten cineta, Lima cottaldina, Cy ngulata, Cardita fenestriata, Cucitllaea txaltata, Trigonia, Panopaeaplicata, Thetis fyii, Gervillia and Terehratula sella. The Sandgate Beds contain but few fossils, but in the Folkestone Beds there are large Exog) 1 innata. The Chalk Marl is much faulted; in some placi il ouches the shore, and in others ii is ten or twelve feet above it. Fossils found in the Gault Inoceramus concentricus, /. sulcatns, Nitatla pectinata, Aporrhais marginata, D, utalium •unites minimus, B. attenuatus, Ammonite splendens, .1. tuberculatus, .1. varicorus, Hernia lothers. -G. 1 Crouch , London. R \ 1 e 01 Ii e-Fi o\v. 1 . ns made by Mr. E. I. Garwood in Spitzbergen, in is7- the ice-sheet seemed to indicate a rate of movenless than 15 to 20 feet in 24 hours, whilst the glaciersnear the sea-margin appeared to be travelling aboul25 feet in the. The death is annoui 11 St. Andrews, .1 botanist ol >oi ? p>il. re and Kinn Mils Ayr 11 in occupied the 1 hail tl ;i of the recenl W ns International College. Astronomy was re|n a- lie. Klumpl 1 the observatory at 1aiis; Geology by Miss Raisin ofBedford College; Chemi 1 Miss Dorothj Marshall of Gtrton; Bacterioloj Mrs. Percy Frankland, and Biology by Miss I thel Sargant. The sum 11I/,45,ooo. the amount allotted1 lovernmenl towards the expiNational Antarctic Expedition is rather is especially so as it leaves the amount of£100,000, the estimated ? of the undertaking, shortby some ,£15,000. It is d il the Australasian Colonies rnaj come forward with pan of the desiredfinancial aid siill necessary. Tiik ion D rei l. published by Mr. W. B. <Ti\? 1 Universil I II 1 Press,contains exhaustive information concerning the Scienceand An examinations ol thi London UniveiThough iis title is simply mal il gives the intending student all details
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