Works 071 Natural History, 



Colliery, by Mr. Buddie, who gives likewise an account of 

 the explosion which took place in Jarrow Colliery, on the 

 3d of August, 1830; and a Synopsis of the several Seams of 

 Coal in the Newcastle District. 2. Notice on the effects of a 

 Basaltic Dyke, at Butterknowle Colliery, by Mr. Michael 

 Forster. 3. Notice of a Bed of Whin, at Stanhope, in Wear- 

 dale, by W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. 4. Notes on the New Red 

 Sandstone of Durham, below the Magnesian Limestone, by 

 Mr. Hutton. 5. Observations on the Geology of Ratcheugh 

 Creg, near Alnwick, by Mr. Francis Forster ; and, by the 

 same individual. Observations on the South Welsh Coal 

 Basin. 6. On the discovery of Hazel Nuts, in working a 

 lead ore vein in the manor of Alston Moor, by Mr. Pattinson. 

 7. Remarks on the Geology of the Banks of the Tweed, by 

 Mr. Winch. 8. Description of a group of Dykes, termed 

 Ryders, discovered in the Whitehaven Colliery, by Mr. Peile. 

 9. Notice of the Edge Seams of Mid-Lothian, with a descrip- 

 tion of Gilmerton Colliery, by Mr. Dunn ; and an extract 

 relative to the explosion at Harraton Colliery, in the year 

 1808, by the same. 10. On the Red Sandstones of Berwick- 

 shire, by H. Witham, Esq., who communicates also a descrip- 

 tion of a Fossil Tree discovered in the quarry of Craigleith, 

 near Edinburgh. 1 1. Account of some Fossil Stems of Trees 

 found penetrating through the strata above the High Main 

 Coal, at Killingworth Colliery, at a depth of forty-eight 

 fathoms, by Mr. Wood ; who has another paper on the 

 geology of a part of Northumberland and Cumberland. 



There is another paper, a Sketch of the Life and Works 

 of the late Thomas Bewick, by Mr. G. C. Atkinson, which 

 we have read with pleasure and interest ; and no one, we 

 presume, will question the propriety of its insertion in a 

 volume proceeding from the Natural History Society of New- 

 castle. N. 



Art. TII. Catalogue of Works on Natural History, lately published, 

 with some Notice of those considered the most interesting to British 

 Naturalists, 



Britain. 



Anon. [Understood to be by Professor Bennie] : Insect Miscellanies. 

 12mo. London, Charles Knight, 1831. Forming another Volume of 

 the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, and completing the subject of 

 Insects. 



A most interesting volume, rich in amusing and instructive information, 

 and adorned with very numerous wood-cuts. The compiler has been very 

 prompt in availing himself of all that has been published up to the hour 



