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himself on Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Sepidoptera, Diptera, 

 Hemiptera, Aphides, Fishes, Birds, and Mammals. The Rev. 

 W. R. Linton deals with Botany; his clearly stated divisions 

 will abundantly satisfy technical botanists as giving an admir- 

 able summary of the county's flora; we suppose lack of space 

 prevented any attempt at dealing more popularly with this 

 subject, as has been done in some volumes of the series, notably 

 the recently issued first volume of Berkshire. 



The thirty-eight pages of Mr. Arnold-Bemrose on the Geology 

 of the county are peculiarly interesting. The writer of this 

 notice having studied the whole of the opening volumes of 

 twelve counties already issued, has no hesitation in saying that 

 Mr. Bemrose's article is the most generally edifying geological 

 article that has yet been issued in connection with this scheme. 

 The temptation of the geological writer to overload his subject 

 with a plethora of technicalities has been, in this case, carefully 

 eschewed. 



More than half, however, of these 450 pages have relation 

 to man. Early Man and Anglo-Saxon Remains receive com- 

 petent treatment at the hands of one of the best known contri- 

 butors to this Journal — Mr. John Ward, formerly of Derby, and 

 now Curator of the Cardiff Museum. Dr. Haverfield, who is 

 facile princeps among Romano-British antiquaries, has a 

 strikingly interesting and profusely illustrated account, covering 

 some seventy-five pages, on the traces that the Romans have 

 left of their long occupation of Derbyshire. This article is a 

 really brilliant piece of archaeological scholarship, and every 

 thoughtful Derbyshire man will feel grateful to the writer for 

 having given so much time to the subject. 



Mr. J. Romilly Allen is our best general authority on pre- 

 Norman sculptured stones ; he contributes a useful critical 

 summary and analysis of the numerous examples of Early 

 Christian Art that have been found in this county. 



It will be a great disappointment to not a few to find that 

 Mr. J. H. Round has not been able to find time to contribute 

 the introductory essay to the Derbyshire Domesday, as his 

 essays in other volumes of this series have been universally 



