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for want of any common datum level. Lastly, Mr. W. B. Wright 

 contributes an excellent bibliography of the geology of the 

 district under review, including over 160 entries of books, 

 papers, and notes. On the wrapper we are glad to see a priced 

 list of the somewhat complicated series of publications of 

 the Irish branch of the Geological Survey. This list is a 

 distinct improvement on the similar one which appears on 

 the English publications, inasmuch as the dates of issue of 

 all the maps and memoirs are given ; also the number of 

 pages and figures in each memoir ; so that the would-be 

 purchaser knows what he is bujdng. 



Five delightful photographs by Mr. Welch enhance the 

 appearance of the Memoir, which otherwise, from the point 

 of view of book-production, has little to recommend it. The 

 printing, as well as the drawing of the line blocks in the 

 text, is particularly poor. On opening the Memoir a hideous 

 " fig. I " hits one between the eyes, so to speak, in a really 

 painful way. But, indeed, from one drab paper cover to the 

 other, the 174 octavo pages of bad paper and bad print are 

 redolent of that peculiarly soulless and inartistic atmosphere 

 which we have learned to associate in these countiies with 

 Government publications. 



REVIEW. 



THE BELFAST FIELD CLUB. 



Annual Report and Proceedings, Belfast Naturalists' Field 

 Club. Ser. ii.. Vol. v., Part i, 1901-2 ; 2, 1902-3. Belfast, 1904. 



After au interval of two years (three years according to the dates on 

 title pages), the Belfast Club has issued a part of its Proceedings, which 

 used to be an annual publication. The present number covers the years 

 1901-2 and 1902-3, and gives accounts of summer excursions and abstracts 

 of papers read at winter meetings. Of special interest to Irish naturalists 

 are S. A. Stewart's notice of Prof. Ralph Tate, the virtual founder of the 

 Belfast Club, and Joseph Wright's papers on the Foraminifera of the 

 Boulder-clay of Knock and Woodburn. We notice that the present part 

 of the Proceedings is not yet quite free from the misprints which have 

 disfigured recent issues. 



