52 - Book Notice. 
(one picked up, caught, and kept alive for two days) ; ‘ North 
Atlantic Great Shearwater in Sussex ’ (washed ashore) ; ‘ Grey 
Rumped Sandpiper in Sussex’ (shot) ; “White Winged Lark 
in Sussex’ (Seen, and apparently allowed to live, this by a 
lady) ; -‘ Kildeer Plovers in Sussex’ (two were ‘ obtained ” 
but a third, ‘ being very wild has so far escaped the guns of 
the lookers’); ‘Greater Yellowshank in Sussex’ (shot) ; 
‘Mediterranean Black-headed Gull in Sussex ’ (in this case the 
bird was seen, and, thank heaven, the writer ‘is glad to say 
that no shooting is allowed along the front at Hastings and 
St. Leonards, so that I hope this bird may be allowed to remain 
unmolested and not meet with the fate that unfortunately 
happens to any rare birds which visit this neighbourhood’). 
Bravo, Mr. T. Parkin, and bravo, editor of Bmtish Birds for 
printing his observation. We don’t, of course, suggest that 
any of the six new additions to the list of British birds “ seen 
in the flesh’ in Sussex, are at all on a par with the well-known 
Ripon ‘new record’ which we recently exposed. We can 
only wonder! At any rate our Sussex friends are apparently 
as confiding as they are vigilant. 
=O: 


BIBLIOGRAPHY OF YORKSHIRE GEOLOGY (C. Fox-Strangways’ 
Memorial Volume). Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc., Vol. XVIII. 
By T. SHEPPARD. 8vo. London, Hull and York: A. Brown 
and Sons, Ltd. 1915 (Dec.), xxxvi.+ 629 pp. Price 15s. net- 
Yorkshire geologists are in a fortunate position. For 
many years they have been favoured with annual lists of the 
writings on this subject, and Mr. Sheppard has completed 
Fox-Strangways’ manuscripts, collected together all previous 
lists, revised the whole, consolidated it from, 1534 to 1914 and 
provided a colossal index by means of which the reader can 
find anything he desires. The test of such a work as this can 
only be proved by constant use. Here we can merely draw 
attention to its publication and its utility, to the time it is 
bound to save to the geological reader, and to the ease with 
which an interleaved copy can be annotated. The index 
seems as near completion as an index should be. We note 
one is able to find a paper under the author, the subject upon 
which he writes, and the locality he deals with. We even find 
subjects indexed under the preceding adjective, e.g., “ Figured 
specimen, York Museum,’ a refinement usually considered un- 
necessary. But no one ever grumbles at an extra entry in’an 
index. We thank Mr. Sheppard for the care he has bestowed 
on Fox-Strangways’ manuscripts, and the labour he has spent 
in adding to and completing other lists. His reward can only 
be in the quiet knowledge that he is helping others and the 
rarity of the thanks he will receive from those who use his 
work.—C. D.$. 

Naturalist, 
