BRITISH ISLES. 5 



Brodie, Rev. P. B. Kotes on a Railway- section of the Lower Lias 



and Rhootics between Stratford-on-Avon and Fenny Compton, on 



the occurrence of the Rhoctics near Kincton, and the Insect-hcds 



near Knowle in "Warwickshire, and on the Recent Discovery of 



the Rhaetics near Leicester. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxx. 



pp. 746-749. 



The first-named sections are the best in Warwickshire ; it is probable 



that the Rhaetic beds underlie the Lias throughout the county. As a 



general rule, in Warwickshire, when the White Lias is absent its place 



is occupied by the " firestones " and " guinea-bed," and vice versa. At 



Spinney Hills, near Leicester, Rhaetic beds have been found. They 



contain the ordinary fossils, with the addition of Opliiura. The paper 



concludes with a note on the range of the Rhaetics in England. W. T. 



Brogden, a. On the Rampside Boring, near Barrow. Journ. Iron 

 and Steel Inst. no. 2, 1874, pp. 300-319. 



Brothers, A. [Note on a Well at Southend.] Proc. Lit. Phil. Soc. 



Manchester, vol. xiii. no. 9, p. 91. 

 [Section described, in 1872, in Geol. Survey Mem. vol. iv.] 



Brown, T. F. The South-Wales Coal-field. Trans. N. Engl. Inst. 

 Eng. vol. xxiii. pp. 197-256 (plates xlii.-xlvi., sections and plans). 



Enters into details concerning the history, yield, method of working, 

 &c. of the coal-field. The Coal-measures, of a total thickness of more 

 than 7000 feet, are divided into three series : — (1) Upper Pennant, 

 varj'ing from 400 to 3000 feet in thickness ; (2) Lower Pennant, from 

 1100 to 3000 feet; (3) White Ash series, from 500 to 1000 feet. 

 Analyses of ironstones are given. W. T. 



Browx, W. J. On the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland. — 



Part II. Llandovery Rocks. Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc. vol. ii. part iii. 



pp. 316-321. 



Discusses the position of the Moffat Shales in the Lower Silurian series 



of the South of Scotland, and treats of the Llandovery Rocks of Ayrshire 



and their supposed relations to the beds on which they rest. H. A. N. 



. On the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland. — Part III. 



Wenlock and Ludlow Rocks. Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc. vol. ii. part iii. 

 pp. 377-383. 

 Notices the Upper Siluiian rocks of Kirkcudbright, tlic Pentlaud 

 Hills, and Lesmahagow. Gives the conclusions to which ho had been 

 led by his study of the Silurian rocks of the South of Scotland, and 

 concludes with a table embodying what he believes to be their true 

 arrangement. II. A. N. 



Callaway, C. On the Occurrence of a Tremadoc Area near the 



Wrekin, in South Staffordshire, with Description of a New Fauna. 



Quart. Journ. (Jeol. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 196. 



Notes a section of light-green micaceous shales, at Shineton, near 



Cressage. The author believes the beds to be of Tremadoc age, and 



describes, as new therein, 9 fossils from the locality. W. T. 



