From a locality in North Staffordshire. Microspore assemblages are described from the Six Inch Mine coal seam, the immediately overlying carbonaceous shales, and the marine shale bed. Marked differences occur within this thin sequence in the proportions of certain genera present; in particular, the dominance of Florinites in the marine shales is discussed. Whilst the proportionate numbers of genera vary, the actual species present are more or less the same, though a greater variety exists in the shales. Three new genera and seven new species are described.

The purpose of this note is to put on record the discovery of Lower Coal Measure strata in the west of Ireland. The succession is approximately 500 feet thick and includes the Gastrioceras subcrenatum and the Gastrioceras listeri marine bands. Of particular interest is the occurrence of a coarse felspathic sandstone in the cycle of sedimentation which includes the G. listeri horizon: the sandstone is very similar in lithology to the distinctive Clay-Gall Sandstone of the Leinster Coalfield.

The amphibolite at Durcha passes from a dark, hornblende-rich rock, through every gradation of delicate striping and banding by quartzo-feldspathic material out into psammitic Moine schist, within a few metres. Irregular cross-cutting bands of quartz and feldspar which seem to “ feed ” the delicate stripes can be seen and there are intergrown mixtures of the dark and light components which recall appinites. Chemical and other evidence suggests that the dark rock is a concordant thpleiitic dolerite sill, whilst the macroscopic and microscopic evidence from the pale bands suggests that they are metasomatic in origin and connected with the widespread permeative alkali-injection of the Moine Schists. They seem to have been introduced into the sill along closely-spaced foliation planes parallel with those in the adjacent sediments and with the original contacts of the sill.

Plant microspores and megaspores are used to correlate the separate occurrences of the English Wealden with the marine Lower Cretaceous of Lincolnshire and with a Netherlands succession. The paper is a preliminary statement on the representation of the Continental stages in the English Wealden.

The polymetamorphism and fades classification of the Saxa Vord Schists are discussed on the basis of further chemical and mineralogical data now available.

The field relations and petrography of the Grantown Newer Granite are described. The structure of the country rocks—Moine gneisses—is compared with that of the numerous blocks included in the granite, the results being synoptically presented. The blocks originally bore the same orientation as the country rocks and have been rotated in the granite during its emplacement. From east to west three zones of orientation, showing increasing rotation of blocks from their original position, are recognized in the granite. As the granite lacks an internal penetrative structure the kinematics of the blocks in the granite remains uncertain. All the evidence suggests that the granite did not form in situ, but was emplaced in a plastic state by dilation of the country rocks mainly along their foliation.

A short description is given of Cambrian and Ordovician fossils from near the top of the Hecla Hoek succession in Ny Friesland and the relations with other areas is briefly discussed.

The occurrence of low Namurian plants in the Neath Valley is noted. It is believed that they show the presence of the Eumorphoceras Stage. This revision of age in relation to the Namurian-Avonian junction is briefly discussed.