DURING the past few years the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Trichinopoly District, South India, have been receiving a lot of attention on account of the numerous reptilian remains found in some parts of the formation. Dr. C. A. Matley visited these areas about six years back and collected some specimens—a brief preliminary account of which he has recently published. Almost simultaneously with Dr. Matley, the staff and students of the Geology section, Central College, began to interest themselves in this area and have paid several visits to the very locality from which Dr. Matley has collected most of his specimens. As a result of these expeditions it is gratifying to note that we have been able to collect quite a large number of well-preserved fossil bones, and in the words of Dr. Matley this discovery of ours “ is of great importance as it is the first time that Southern India has yielded identifiable remains of dinosaurs ”.

I HAVE read Dr. Sandford’s important note on “Some Recent Contributions to the Pleistocene Succession in England” (Geol. Mag., LXIX, NO. 811, January, 1932), with much pleasure and profit. So long ago as 1920 I published in the Geological Magazine (“The Geological Age of the earliest Palaeolithic Flint Implements”, LVII, No. 671, May, 1920) a communication in which I expressed the then unorthodox belief that the palaeolithic implements of England were not—as was at the time generally supposed—of post-glacial age, but were made by races of people living in warm epochs intervening between the various glacial periods. In this note I also, for the first time, made a tentative correlation of the East Anglian glacial deposits with those studied by Penck and Brückner in the Alps, and it is of much interest to me to notice how my initial work has been extended by others, among whom Dr. Sandford takes a foremost place. It is also gratifying, human nature being what it is, to find that so much of my original correlation has stood the test of time, and that my claim that the Upper Chalky Boulder Clay is of Riss age, which received much condemnation, now finds itself supported by the powerful advocacy of my friend the Abbé Breuil.

DURING a residence of nine months on the Ufipa Plateau, the writer had opportunity for examining the gneissose rocks and associated schists near the village of Namwele, locally well known as the centre of coal-bearing beds, with results summarized in the following note. The position—about 7° 50′ S. lat. and 31° 30′ E. long.—is S.E. of the central part of Lake Tanganyika, and not far from the western edge of the Rukwa Trough.

SOME years ago I recorded in the columns of Nature the discovery, in the Miocene beds of Tasmania, of a fossil cetacean of the squalodont type. Apart from the value of this specimen in its bearing on the phylogeny of the Cetacea, it is of interest in correlating certain geological horizons of Australia with those of South America in which the same genus has been found.