BRITISH Isles. 35 



from woody iibro explained. 13 analyses of coals are given, and a list 

 of the fossil plants from the Coal Measures of the district. H. B.AV. 



Stokes, — . On Coal. Land and Water, vol. xxii. no. 570, p. 465. 



Gives an account of the Derbyshire coal-field, and of a live caterpillar 

 (larva of Cossus ligniperda) found in coal, at a depth of 68 yards, at 

 Highmoor, Eckington (read at the Derby Naturalists' Society). G. H. K. 



Symonds, Rev. W. S. The Geology and Archaeology of Malvern. 

 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. Field Club, vol. vi. pp. 247-256. 



Notes on the Drift, L. Lias, llha^tic, Triassic, and Permian. Some 

 pebble-beds towards the base of the Water-stones (Keuper) contain 

 pebbles of a quartz-rock, like those of the Budleigh-Salterton pebble- 

 bed. H. B. W. 



Tate, [Prof.] R., and J. F. Blake. The Yorkshire Lias. Pp. ix, 

 475, xii. Geological Map (scale j inch to a mile) ; 4 plates of 

 sections ; 19 plates of fossils and 10 woodcuts. 8vo. London. 



Part I. Geology (pp. 1-238). Chap. i. General Range of Liassic 

 Strata on the Continent and British Isles, ii. Literature of the York- 

 shire Lias. iii. Range, Extent, and General Characters of the York- 

 shire Lias (with table of classifications), iv. Relations of the Lias and 

 Inferior Oolite, v. Rhaetic Series and the Relations of the Lias with 

 the Keuper. vi-xii. Zones of Ammonites planorhis, A. angulatus, A. 

 BiicMandi, A. oxynotus, A. Jamesoni, A. capricornus, A. margaritatiis. 

 xiii. The Ironstone, or zone of A., spinatus (Lateral Changes, Isochthonal 

 Lines, Sections and Range, Inliers, General Observations on the Organic 

 Remains), xiv. Historical Sketch of the Discovery and Industrial 

 Applications of the Cleveland Main Seam (Chemical Composition, 

 Origin), xv. Zone of A. annulatus. xvi. Jet-Rock Series, or zone of 

 A. serpentinus (Range and Exposure, Working, &c.). xvii. Zone of 

 -4. comwu?iis, or Alum-Shale, xviii. Zona oi A. J arensis. xix. Strati- 

 graphical Phenomena (Thickness of Strata, Dip and Undulations, 

 Faults, the Basaltic Dyke), xx. Conclusions, including a Synoptical 

 Table of Fossils from the Yorkshire Lias. — Details of Sections and 

 Lists of Fossils throughout. 



Part II. Palajontology. (See post, under Pal-sjontology.) W. T. 



Tate, Thomas. The Glacial Deposits of the Bradford Basin. Proc. 



Geol. Soc. W. Riding YorTcsh. n. s. pt. ii. pp. 101-107. 

 Describes Preglacial river gravel. Lower Till, Upper Till, and a blue 

 clay full of local rocks, and not calcareous. 



Tawny, E. B. On the Age of Cannington Park Limestone, and its 



relation to the Coal Measures South of the Mendips. Proc, 



Bristol Nat. Soc. n. ser. vol. i. pt. iii. pp. 380-387. 



Discusses opinions concerning the age of this limestone, ana records 



the chief observations upon it. Notes the occurrence in it of LitJiv 



strotion irregulare and of a species of Producta. Recognizes a litho- 



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