BRITISH ISLES. 7 



Describes sections on the railway from Statford to Kineton, in New 

 Red, Rhaetic Beds, and Lias. The beds are disturbed and faulted in 

 places. Details of Harbury cutting are given, showing many layers 

 of limestone, with a list of the fossils found there. The occurrence of 

 the "insect-bed" at the Copt Heath outlier is noted, as also that of 

 the Rhaetic Beds at Spinney Hills, near Leicester, W. W. 



Brown, Thomas F. On the South Wales Coal-field. Proc. S. Wales 

 Inst. Eng. vol. ix. pt. i. no. 2, pp. 59-129, plates 10-14; and 

 pt. ii. no. 2 ( = plate 9) (map, plans, and sections), and no. 3, 

 pp. 151-153. [? The same as the paper noticed in the Geological 

 Record for 1874, p. 5.] 

 History (and statistics), pp. 59-65 ; Extent of Coal-field, pp. QQ, 

 67 ; Older formations (Millstone Grit, Mountain Limestone, Old Red, 

 Silurian, Hypogene), pp. 67-69; Scenery, 69, 70. Description of 

 strata [of the Coal-field] : — 1. Upper Pennant Series ; 2. Lower 

 Pennant Series (with analyses of ironstones) ; White Ash Series, 

 pp. 70-75. Ironstones, with analyses, pp. 75-80. Fire-clay, &c., 

 Faults, Slips, Anticlinal, pp. 80, 81. Change of Quality [in the coals], 

 with Theories thereof, pp. 82-84. Statistics, Winning, Mode of Work- 

 ing, &c., pp. 84-121. Future Prospects, Newer Formations, pp. 121- 

 123. Fossils: a list of the more important, in the Museum of the 

 Cardiff Naturalists' Society, pp. 123-126. Appendix: Particulars of 

 Coal-seams in the W. division of the Coal-field, pp. 127-129. The 

 Map is on a scale of 2 inches to a mile ; the General Vertical Section 

 in the E. part of the Coal-field on a scale of 120 feet to an inch. W. W." 



. On " Metal Dams, or Tubbing, &c. &c." Proc. S. Wales 



Inst. Eng. vol. ix. no. 3, p. 154, plates 21-24. 



Notes on the Forest of Dean Coal-field. PI. 21 is a map of the 

 field ; pi. 22 a section across it from N. to S. ; pi. 23 a " section of the 

 strata sunk through at Bowson CoUiery." W. W. 



Buckman, Prof. J. The Geology of the County of Cornwall in 



reference to Agriculture and Rural Economy. Joum. Bath and 



W. Engl. Soc. ser. 3, vol. vii. pp. 156-168. 



Notices the physical features and climate of the county, and describes 



the different formations represented in it, and the relative superficial 



area which they occupy. The soils on each formation are noticed, and 



attention is drawn to the modifying influence of the mineral wealth 



upon the agriculture of the county. H. B. W. 



. On the Cephalopoda Bed and the Oolite Sands of Dorset 



and part of Somerset. Proc. Somerset. Archceol. Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 vol. XX. pp. 140-164. 

 Having described the beds seen in three quarries near Bradford 

 Abbas, and enumerated the fossils obtained from them, the author ex- 

 presses his opinion that the Dorset Cephalopoda-bed is the representa- 

 tive of the Rubbly Oolite at the top of Leckhampton Hill and of Cold 

 Comfort, and consists of the Gryphite and Trigonia Grits of Hull's 



