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boniferous beds, while they are absent on New Red Sandstone. 

 These diseases are liable to prevail when there is a deficiency of iron 

 and phosphates in the blood ; these constituents are sparingly present 

 in Carboniferous beds, but are more abundant in the New Red, 

 Refers to a Millstone Grit district, where the soil is much coloured by 

 oxide of iron, and goitre and ansemia are unknown." W. T. 



Morton, G. H. The Carboniferous Limestone and Millstone Grit of 

 North Wales. Part I. Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. session 15, 

 pp. 16-19. 



Consists of a list of 30 works relating to the subject, published 

 between 1778 and 1873. 



NoELAs, — . Note sur les Mardelles et les silex tailles des Machefers 



de la plaine de Combret pres Roanne. IMardelle? (ponds) and 



worked flints of the Mdchefer (iron-conglomerate) of Combret, near 



Roanne.] Bull. Soc. Geol. France, 3 ser. t, i. pp. 481, 



Note on remains of lacustrine dwellings in ponds, known in the 



neighbourhood as servas or redoutes ; also of worked flints in a curious 



deposit of ferruginous conglomerate, called locally mdchefer, which is 



found close to the surface, and is now in course of formation. G. A. L, 



Omboni, G. Su degli oggetti preistorici provenienti da una delle 

 caverne di velo nel Veronese. Yenice. 



Ortlieb, J. Silex tailles au Mont des Chats. [Worked Flints at 



Mont des Chats.] Ann. Soc. Geol. Nord, 1870-1874, p. 4. 

 Note of occurrence. 



Partridge, W. Rapport sur le Catalogue des Fossiles Tertiaires qui 

 se trouvent au Musee Federal de Zurich. [Tertiary fossils, Zurich 

 Museum.] Bull. Soc. Geol. Norm. t. i. 2 fasc. pp. 217-224. 



A review of M. Mayer s views on the arrangement of fossil collections, 

 which the writer thinks suited only to large, and useless for local 

 general collections. Explains a plan for the latter based on : — 1, the 

 division of a collection into as many parts as there are geological 

 horizons in the locality it represents ; 2, the classification of the rocks 

 with their fossils in the order of superposition ; 3, series of fossils of 

 each horizon classified zoologically. G. A. L. 



Penoelly, W. The Flint and Chert Implements found in Kent's 

 Cavern, Torquay, Devonshire. Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1873, pp. 

 209-214 ; and Quart. Journ. Sci. no. xlii. pp. 141-155. 



Gives an account of the succession of deposits in Kent's Cavern, and 

 of the remains which they contain (see p. 29). The implements found 

 in the oldest deposit, the breccia, are rudely formed, massive, and un- 

 symmetrical; they have been formed direct from flint nodules, and 

 generally retain traces of the original surface. The implements from 

 the cave-earth are ovoid, lanceolate, and tongue - shaped ; they are 

 symmetrical, and have been formed from flakes previously struck ofi^ the 

 flint nodules. Bone needles, harpoons, and a perforated badger's tooth 



