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microscope. These and certain other figures of microscope sections are, in some 

 instances, rather diagrammatic, but are admirable of their kind. Chapter xi. 

 deals with sedimentary rocks, and gives a short but useful description of sand- 

 stones and grits. Then follows chapter xii., describing limestones and slates, 

 with several good illustrations. 



Chapter xiii. is headed "Rocks used in the Arts and Manufactures." The 

 reader may find some useful information here ; but the two pages on gems 

 might, for practical purposes of identification, just as well have been omitted. 

 Chapters xiv. and xv. are devoted to questions of water-supply, drainage, land- 

 slips, tunnelling, road-making, etc. A map of England and Wales is given, 

 showing the distribution of road-stones. It is difficult to say why the Land's 

 End should be marked "syenite," and several additions might be made in other 

 parts of the map ; still it is a useful one. 



There is an appendix on " Simple and Rough Methods for the Determina- 

 tion of Minerals and Rocks." Suffice it to say that they are simple and rough. 



An index, in which Arkose precedes Architectural, and Bauxite comes before 

 Basalt, concludes the volume, which, with its good features improved and its bad 

 ones eliminated, may eventually fulfil the author's praiseworthy object in making 

 it of use both to the geologist and the "practical man." In its present form it 

 will probably better serve the purpose of the latter. The paper, the letterpress, 

 and many of the illustrations are good. There are possibilities about such a 

 book. The general plan of the work indicates a useful motive in a right 

 direction. F. R. 



THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION". 



Report of Proceedings, with the Papers read at the Tenth Annual General 

 Meeting, held in Sheffield — July 4 to 8, 1898. Edited by Herbert 

 Bolton. 8vo, pp. 193. London: Dulan and Company, 1899. Price 5s. 



" The Editor," we read on p. v., " exceedingly regrets that so long a time 

 has been occupied in completing these Proceedings, which, under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances, ought to have been in the hands of members and associates last 

 October." What the extraordinary circumstances may be we are not informed ; 

 but among them may doubtless be reckoned Mr. Bolton's removal to Bristol 

 almost immediately after his appointment as Editor of the Museums Associa- 

 tion, and the mass of additional work connected with the rearrangement of 

 large collections in the Bristol Museum and with the British Association 

 Meeting, in which he thus became involved. Considering this, we do not think 

 that Mr. Bolton need be greatly ashamed of having followed the example of 

 previous editors in issuing the report eleven months after the meeting to which 

 it refers. 



We miss from the volume before us some of the papers which, according to 

 the programme, were read at the meeting. Curators will regret the absence of 

 Professor W. C. F. Anderson's stimulating remarks on " Museums in relation to 

 Art Teaching," of the valuable suggestions as to " Methods of Preservation and 

 Arrangement of Seaweeds for Exhibition " that came from Professor F. E. 

 Weiss, and especially of the thoroughly practical " Note on some Arrangements 

 and Fittings in the Sheffield Museum," read by the energetic curator of that 

 institution, the enthusiastic secretary of the Association, Mr. E. Howarth. 

 None the less, it would not have been advisable to have delayed publication of 

 the report for the sake of including even these valuable contributions. 



The contents of the report are of rather more varied nature than usual. 

 The natural history aspect of museums has had prominence hitherto, but in the 

 present volume are several contributions from the Art side. This is as it should 

 be, for, different though the two branches appear, the curators of each can with 

 profit exchange experiences and hints. Rather more art in the display of 



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