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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, ete. 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. RB, 
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 
Botton. 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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