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Fig. 32. Sectionof Chalk-pit at Whitlingham, near Norwich, showing Chalk overlaid with 

 Crag and Lower Drift. (From Woodward's " Geology of England and Wales.") 



Fig. 33. Section at .Snowdown, Chard, showing Upper Greensand, Lower Chalk, and Chloritic Marl. 



Fig. 34. Cutting near Uphill (Bristol and E.xeter Railway), .showing the Lias faulted 

 against Carboniferous Limestone. 



Western Provinces of 

 India " (London : H. S. 

 King & Co.), Captain 

 Baldwin, F.Z.S., shows 

 how it is possible to com- 

 bine the ardour of tlie 

 sportsman with that of 

 a naturalist. This book 

 is written in that fresh 

 and lively style -which 

 usually marks w'orks of 

 the class. The author 

 ^^•as long quartered in 

 one of the best game 

 districts of the Bengal 

 Presidency, such as the 

 Central Provinces, Oude, 

 Assam, and Central 

 India, where both large 

 and small game are 

 abundant ; and, as he 

 kept accurate notes of 

 his experience and obser- 

 vations, and now gives 

 them in the work before 

 us, our readers will under- 

 stand that it is really a 

 most valuable contribu- 

 tion to the literature of 

 natural history. The 

 author also tells us that 

 on five different occasions 

 he made extensive sport- 

 ing expeditions into the 

 interior of the Himalayas, 

 and twice visited parts of 

 the most unfrequented 

 and least-known quarters 

 of that little-known range 

 of mountains. On one 

 occasion he made his way 

 along the snow passes 

 into Thibet. The reader 

 gets the benefit of this 

 varied geographical, 



sporting, and zoological 

 experience in a narrative 

 which most happily com- 

 bines all three. We have 

 no doubt whatever that 

 the author's hope that 

 some young hunter about 

 to start for the East will 

 find some useful hints 

 from his experiences, 

 will be abundantly real- 

 ized. The chapters on 

 "Tigers" and "Tiger- 

 hunting " are, as we 



