BRITISH ISLES. 3 



Anon. [H. P. M.] Subwealden Explorations. Land and Water, 



Sept. 23. 

 Remarks on the boring and its results. 



[M. Knights.] The Antiquity of Man. Account of a Geo- 



logical Ramble around Brandon, and of a Discovery of Remains 



of Pre-historic Man. Reprinted from the Eastern Daily PresSy 



October. Pp. 16. 



Describes the great chalky boulder clay, and notes the evidence 



brought forward by Mr. Skertchly (see p. 33) to support his discovery 



of palaeolithic implements in brickearth, supposed to be beneath this 



clay. H. B. W. 



. The Channel Tunnel. Chamhers^s Journal, September. 



• . Lincolnshire, or East Notts Coal Exploration. CoU. Guard, 



vol. xxxi. p. 136. 

 Coal Measures reached by boring at a depth of 1900 feet. 



. Coal Winning in the Gwendraeth Yalley, Caermarthenshire. 



Coll. Guard, vol. xxxi. p. 253. ^ 

 The " Big Yein," 8 feet thick, struck at 45 yards at the Trimsaran 

 Colliery. 



. Important Find of Coal in Lanarkshire. Coll. Guard, vol. xxxi. 



p. 390. From the Hamilton Advertiser. 



Argall, W. H. On the Elvan-courses of Cornwall. Bejp. Miners^ 



Assoc. Cornwall for 1875, pp. 37-64 ; 10 woodcuts. 

 Gives various particulars, such as composition, size, and direction, of 

 147 elvan-courses. 



Argyll, Duke of. On the Physical Structure of the Highlands, in 

 connection with their Geological History. Nature, vol. xiv. pp. 435- 

 438. (Brit. Assoc.) 



Aveline, W. T. Absence of Llandovery Rocks in the Lake District. 



Geol. Mag. dec. ii. vol. iii. p. 282. 

 The Stockdale ( = Tarannon) Shales underlie the Coniston (= Den- 

 bighshire) Grits and Flags. A very slight break separates the Stockdale 

 Shales and the Coniston (=Bala) Limestone ; and a great break occurs 

 between the last and the Volcanic series. [See Hicks, p. 16.] 



W. H. D. 



The Silurian Rocks of the Lake District. Geol. Mag. dec. ii. 



vol. iii. p. 376. 



The Tarannon Shales in Wales overlie the Llandovery Rocks. [Soo 

 Hicks, p. 16.] 



. The Graptolitic Mudstones of the Lake District. Geol. Mag, 



dec. ii. vol. iv. p. 527. 

 From the base of the mudstones to the top of the Bannisdalo Beds 



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