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moreland and Cumberland. Both in bulk and in the number of 

 articles it agrees pretty closely with the preceding volume. 



The first of the thirteen articles, the Address of the President, 

 Mr. E. S. Ferguson, has a title which might lead one to expect an 

 anatomical dissertation. It is on " The Formation of the English 

 Palate." But it is not to the structure of that important part of 

 our organization that Mr. Ferguson has directed his attention, but 

 to the gustative functions performed by it ; his paper is an amusing 

 digest of information on the art of cookery from the earliest period 

 of which we have any records, with the object of showing in what 

 manner our palates have been trained to their present system of 

 likings and dislikings. Mr. W. Wilson's paper " Thirlmere and its 

 Associations " and Mr. J. B. Bailey's article entitled " Who was the 

 founder of Koman Maryport ? " deal with interesting bits of local 

 topographical and antiquarian information, with a good deal of 

 interspersed literature ; and the Eev. T. Ellwood's " Poets and 

 Poetry of Cumberland, including the Cumbrian Border," is devoted 

 exclusively to local literature, and will be read with interest outside 

 of the circle to which it is specially addressed. 



Coming now to the articles on subjects of natural history we may 

 notice in the first place the conclusion of Mr. GoodchikTs " Contri- 

 butions towards a List of the Minerals occurring in Cumberland and 

 Westmoreland," which treats chiefly of minerals which take part 

 in the formation of crystalline rocks, and has appended to it a 

 general alphabetical index to all the minerals noticed by the author 

 in this and previous parts of his work. Mr. Goodchild also con- 

 tributes a paper on " The Penrith Sandstone," a semipopular mono- 

 graphic study of the rock, with especial reference to the history of 

 its formation. 



Whether it be that the editor, after the fashion of some editors, 

 has unduly put himself forward, or whether there may be some 

 more legitimate mode of accounting for the circumstance, certain it 

 is that we must plead guilty to having violated those bienseances 

 embodied in the three words place aux dames. And this is the 

 more blamable as Miss Donald's " Notes on some Carboniferous 

 Gasteropoda from Penton and elsewhere " is undoubtedly the most 

 seriously scientific article in the volume. Miss Donald refers Tarri- 

 tella Urei, Flern., to Loxonema, T. elongata, Flem., to Adlsina, and 

 Murchisonia qitinquecarinata, Kon., to Orthonema, and describes a 

 new species of Aclisina under the name of A. costatula, from the 

 study of specimens chiefly obtained from a shale in the Calciferous- 

 Sandstone series. She has also figured the above species and another 

 Aclisina in an octavo plate drawn and lithographed by herself. 



There are two more geological papers in the volume, namely, some 

 " Notes on the best Locality for Coal beneath the Permian Bocks of 

 West Cumberland," by Mr. T. V. Holmes, in which the author points 

 out the principles which ought to guide those who propose search- 

 ing for coal in the district in question, and discusses, not always 

 quite harmoniously, the statements made by Mr. J. D. Kendall, in a 

 paper communicated by him in 1883 to the North of England In- 



