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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Richmondshire : an account of its Historj' and Antiquities, Characters 

 and Customs, Leg-endary Lore, and Natural History, b}- Edmund Bogg. 

 Leeds : James Miles. 696 + xxiii. pp., price 7/6 net. 



This is not a dear book, and doubtless many of the readers of this journal 

 who have joined the rambles of the County Naturalists' Union in recent 

 years, will welcome it. Amongst the 240 illustrations from photographs 

 and drawings are many familiar places. Most ol these are easily recognis- 

 able, though that labelled ' William Home, F.G.S.' of Leyburn, sat in his 

 ' bleeding ' chair, would never have been identified were it not for the name 

 given. The first chapter is ' A Geological Sketch of Richmondshire,' by 

 the Rev. J. C. Fowler. With him, we agree that ' it is difficult in a few 



The Lady's Slipper Orchis. 



pages, to give an adequate outline of such a wide and broken district of 

 hill and dale as Richmondshire,' and in his 6\ pages (including illustrations), 

 he has not done justice to the subject. So ' sketchy ' is this ' brief sketch ' 

 that it would have been better omitted. There is a ' Pterodactyl (chalk) ' 

 figured, a ' Carboniferous ' ammonite, etc. We are not quite sure what is 

 meant by the sentence — ' the causes of the Glacial phenomena are in theory 

 and various, one of the latest ideas being that the sun is a variable star.' 



,1909 April I. 



