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De Ranee, C. E. First Report of the Committee for investigating 

 the circulation of the Underground Waters in the New Red Sand- 

 stone and Permian Formations of England, and the quantity 

 and character of the water supplied to various towns and distiicts 

 from these formations. Bep. Brit. Assoc, for 1875, pp. 114- 

 141. 

 Gives tables of succession and thickness of strata in the Liverpool and 

 Preston district and in the Leeds and York district. Details of well- 

 sections (in Devonshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, 

 Warwickshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire) and analyses of 

 water are also given. W. T. 



. S. Lancashire and Burnley Coal Fields, Trans. Mancli, 



Oeol. Soc. vol. xiv. pt. vi. p. 143. 

 Describes variations in thickness of the Coal Measures and seams. 



Dickinson, Joseph. * Stigmaria ficoides ' in the Coal of Leinster, 



Ireland. Traiis. MancJi. Geol. Soc. vol. xiv. pt. ii. pp. 27, 28. 

 Describes rootlets in the under clays of the anthracite coal-seams. 



Dove, George, jun. The Frodingham Iron Field, Xorth Lincoln- 

 shire. Journ. Iron Steel Inst. pp. 318-341 (with discussion) ; 

 2 plans. 

 Contains a table of analyses showing the composition of the bed to 

 be very variable. Analyses of the Manganiferous bands, Lincoln 

 Stone, and Santon Clay are also given. R. B. N. 



Duncan, Major F. The Bagshot Sands in the Isle of Sheppey. 

 (Abstract.) Broc. Geol. Assoc, vol. iv. no. 9, pp. 568, 569. 



The sands occur at Minster. The junction with the London Clay 

 is sharp, from which (and the absence of fossils) the author suggests 

 that the sands may be of sub-aerial origin. W. T. 



Etheridge, R., jun. Note on the Fossils from the Glacial Deposits 



of the North-west Coast of the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides 



[with a Note by Dr. J. Geikie]. Geol. Mag. dec. ii. vol. iii. 



pp. 552-555. 



The fossils were described from two localities on the N.W. coast, a 



little S.W. of the Butt. In all there are 22 species, 16 of which also 



occur in the Boulder Clay of Caithness. Dr. Geikie's note refers to the 



succession of events in the glaciation of the district. W. T. 



Further Localities for Acanthospongia Smithii, Young, and 



Estheria JJawsoni^ Jones. Geol. Mag. dec. ii. vol. iii. p. 576. 

 3 localities for the first, in Scotch Lower Carboniferous Sandstone j 

 1 locality for the last, in Lower Calciferous Sandstone, Dunbar, 



