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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



assist in securing greater accuracy. The newest 

 views and changes in classification are included ; 

 and, although the book is a small one, there is a good 

 deal in it. 



Nature's Hygiene, by C. T. Kingzett, F.C.S. 

 (London : Bailliere, Tindall, & Co.). Although 

 this is the second edition of a book which we noticed 

 favourably when it first came out, the author has 

 improved it by partly rewriting some chapters, and 

 adding others, as water supply, sewage, infectious 

 diseases, &c. It is a good practical manual on all 

 matters relating to health, and we are pleased to see 

 the public taking so much greater interest in this 

 subject as to require a second edition. 



The Naturalist's World, edited by Percy Lund 

 (London : W. Swan Sonnenschein). This is the 

 first volume of a bright and attractive monthly 

 magazine, published under the auspices of the 

 Practical Naturalists' Society. It covers a good deal 

 of ground, contains a variety of well-written articles, 

 and shows plain proof of careful editorship. 



We have also received a neatly got up volume, 

 containing the Reports of the Meetings of the 

 Scientific Association recently held in Montreal and 

 Philadelphia, as given in the American weekly 

 journal Science. It is a very handy volume, and 

 contains the pith of the best papers and addresses, 

 carefully edited. 



GAULT FOSSILS AT FOLKESTONE. 



DURING a recent visit to the Warren, near 

 Folkestone, Kent, in search of Lepidoptera, 

 the weather having become unfavourable, I was 

 obliged to turn my attention to some other branch of 

 Natural History, otherwise I should have to return 

 with empty boxes. On looking from the cliffs above 

 the Warren, I observed the dark line of gault near 

 the beach, and remembering having read that fossils 

 were to be obtained somewhere near this spot, I 

 thought I would become a geologist, for the first 

 time. 



On descending the cliffs, "which are here much 

 broken, and often very wet from the springs which 

 trickle over the impervious clay to the beach," I soon 

 observed remains of shells in various parts of the 

 gault, but, on attempting to dig them out, I found 

 that it was almost impossible to obtain them in 

 perfect condition ; however, I managed to get a few 

 specimens of such species as Inoceramus concern 'ricus 

 and /. sulcatus, Ammonites interruptus and A. 

 itnritits. These Ammonites were mostly broken in 

 extricating them from the clay in which they were 

 found. 



I then turned my attention to the beach, and 

 found the fossils were much more plentiful there, but 

 they were in most cases in the form of interior casts 



filled in fact with iron-pyrites, but many were very 

 perfect. By searching under lumps of clay and 

 boulders, I found many species, such as Ammonites 

 varicosus, A. lautus, very plentiful ; Nucula ovata 

 and N. pectinata, common, but only occasionally 

 found perfect. Nucula -oibrayana, not so common 

 as the two other species. Belemnites minimus, B. 

 ultimus and B. attenuatus, rather plentiful. These 

 singular objects when water worn, are not unlike bits 

 of slate-pencil, a comparison which I fear will shock 

 a geologist. 



In some places lately left bare by the tide, I 



Fig. 26. — Inoceramus concentricus. 



Fig. 27. — Aporrhais Parkinsonii. 



found hollows in the gault filled by a deposit con- 

 sisting of small fossils, pebbles and fragments of iron- 

 pyrites. I here found many small species, some of 

 which I have net yet got named, Aporrhais Parkin- 

 sonii and A. rostellaria, rather plentiful, but very 

 imperfect. IPamites tuberculatus, only broken parts of 

 this species could be found, also portions of serpula 

 tubes, and encrinite stems. Corbula gaultina, two 

 specimens only were found on this occasion, but, 

 being much pleased with my first attempt at collecting 

 fossils, I went again, and obtained many specimens 

 of Corbula gaultina and also Cardita tenuicosta, 

 Solarium ornatum, some nearly perfect. Acteon 



