In South-East Arran there are many Kainozoic composite and multiple intrusions, mostly in the form of sills, composed of basic, intermediate, and acid rocks, xenolithic enclosure of, basic members by less basic ones being common. The pyroxene of all the rock types is a normal augite and not a pigeonite. Contact hybridization has played an important role in the partial or complete digestion of xenoliths. The genesis of the different members of the intrusions is attributed to the complex process of deep-seated hybridization of two types of magmatic material of contrasting basic and acid composition. The order of injection of magma is, invariably, from basic to acid, though in the intrusions, the spatial sequence of the rock types varies much; their complicated structures are ascribed to a series of pulsations of contaminated magma with its composition tending progressively in the acid direction.

Seventeen Connemara pelites have been chemically and modally analysed and a garnet, a staurolite, and a biotite from them chemically analysed. The results show that these pelites are rather poor in silica and rich in alumina and total iron. It is believed that this was an original feature of the composition.

A sequence of eleven faunal units characterized by pelagic foraminifera and embodying thirteen significant events has been recognized in the Tertiary of Victoria. They form a continuous sequence from the Upper Eocene to the Middle Miocene. Some of these events have been recognized in the same order in New Zealand, Europe, North America, the Caribbean region, and Saipan.

This paper gives details of part of the Hecla Hoek Succession already outlined (Harland and Wilson, 1956). Field work in 1956 and 1957 in general confirmed the succession, and this account includes the results of the later work. A large-scale repetition of a sedimentary cycle is demonstrated, and the relationship with equivalent rocks in Nordaustlandet is discussed.

The important records of fish remains in the Ludlow Series and Ludlow Bone Bed of the Welsh Borderland are summarized. New occurrences of thelodont and acanthodian denticles in the Llandovery, Wenlock, and Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland, and the rocks in which they occur, are described.

New occurrences of kyanite-bearing schists in the Moine Series in southern Ross-shire demonstrate the order of appearance of the typomorphic minerals staurolite, kyanite, garnet, and sillimanite, and are of significance in elucidating the relationship of regional metamorphism to orogenesis. The scarcity of kyanite in the Northern Highlands is the result of both isochemical and allo-chemical effects, and its distribution is compared with that of its polymorphs andalusite and sillimanite.

Work on post-tectonic complexes in South-eastern Queensland has led to a general hypothesis concerning their formation. The earliest rocks, the gabbros, are intrusive, and these are followed by metamorphic trondhjemitic types which become progressively more granodioritic and finally granitic. The true granites act intrusively towards the earlier rocks of the complex.