The following species of Modiola is common to the Carboniferous Limestone series of England and Scotland, and appears to have been hitherto undescribed from them, although it may, perhaps, be identical with an American Sub-carboniferous species.

Perhaps no district of equal area could be named in which so many instructive illustrations of volcanic action may be witnessed as the beautiful island of Ischia. Although only about six miles long by four broad, yet this island exhibits a great central volcanic mountain,—named “Epomeo”—surrounded by numerous parasitical cones and craters, which, alike in their features and their products, present the most interesting variations.

The meteor took a direction S. 45° E., and exploded with a loud noise at an altitude of about 20 miles, the cloud remaining several minutes. The inclination to the horizon was probably not less than 30° or more than 60°. The fragments of the meteorite, which have not yet been found, probably fell 20 or 30 miles N.W. of Lebanon.

The occurrence of perforations due to Lithophagous mollusca has been frequently observed in the Oolitic rocks, viz. in the Inferior and Great Oolite, Cornbrash, Coral-rag, and Portland beds. During a recent visit, with some of the students of the Agricultural College, Cirencester, to a quarry near there, further evidence of a similar fact was obtained. The quarry is situated near the canal on the farm land of Mr. Sargeant, and has been long worked for road stone and building stone, and, according to the Geological Survey, belongs to the Forest Marble division of the Great Oolite series, and exhibits the structure known as “false-bedding or oblique lamination,” and occasionally the flagstones in this and other neighbouring quarries show ripple-marks and tracks of marine animals.