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DESCRIPTION .O8F VREALE —Schve 
Unio kendalli n.sp. 
(Lower Estuarine Series, Saltwick, Yorks.) 
Fic. 1.—Specimen showing the general form of species; also the 
anterior muscular impressions. (Nat. Size). 
Fic. 2.—Pair of partly gaping valves (slightly inclined), showing the 
visible sculpture on the umbonal region picked out in white. The outer 
white line is a complete growth-line. (Slightly under Nat. Size). 
Fic. 3.—Dorsal view of a pair of closed valves, showing lunule, liga- 
ment, and umbonal markings. (14 times Nat. Size). 
(Types in the Manchester Museum). 
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Some interesting ‘Structural Notes on Taunton Castle’ have been 
written by Mr. J. H. Spencer, and issued in pamphlet form, (12 pp., 4d.), 
by the Somersetshire Archeological, etc., Society. 
The Report of the Colchester Museum of Local Antiquities for rg1o-11, 
has again an encouraging list of acquisitions—Roman and medieval an- 
tiquities, ‘ By-gones,’ etc.; practically all of which are of local interest. 
At this museum photographs of all the more important exhibits are to be 
obtained at one penny each. 
The Report and Proceedings of the Manchester Field Naturalists and 
Archezologists’ Society for the year 1910 (95 pp.) shews that the society is 
in a flourishing condition, and the Report itself has greatly improved in 
appearance, and more care has also, apparently, been exercised in the 
selection of advertisements. The Report is principally a lengthy account 
of the Society’s excursions and meetings, and has a strong botanical 
flavour. 
The Fifty-Eighth Report and Transactions of the Nottingham Naturalists’ 
Society for 1909-10 (published 1911, 46 pp.) are almost entirely geological, 
and, with one exception, the papers refer to Nottinghamshire. Dr. H. H. 
Swinnerton has a paper on ‘ The Bunter Sandstone of Nottinghamshire 
and its Influence upon the Geography of the County’; Dr. L. Moysey 
describes ‘Some Rare Fossils from the Coal Measures of Nottingham- 
shire’; Mr. A. T. Metcalfe writes on ‘ The Great Earth-Movements (Post 
Cambrian) of the North-West Highlands of Scotland’; and there is a 
list of © Fossil Plants from the Nottinghamshire Coal Measures,’ extracted 
from Mr. E. A. Newell Arber’s paper in the Yorkshire Geological Society’s 
Proceedings. 
The Fourteenth Report of the Southport Society of Natural Science for 
1908-10 (published 1911, 99 pp., 1/6), contains a short but interesting 
address by Mr. W. H. Stansfield, on ‘The Ice Age in [North] Britain,’ 
which seems to be about the only paper bearing upon the area of the 
Society’s work. There are notes on ancient Egypt, Flying Machines, 
Comets, Climbing Plants, ‘Herbart’, Water, and the late Dr. G. W. Chaster 
(with portrait). We cannot congratulate the editors upon the way the 
“ Report ’ is arranged ; the abstracts of papers are mixed up with balance 
sheets, lists of members, lists of officers, etc., etc., giving the report a very 
unattractive appearance. Each of the various sections has a separate 
balance sheet (amounting to 8/- or g/- each), which is printed on a separate 
page, whilst here and there a whole page is occupied by the mere title of a 
lecture. Much of this space might be saved if the titles of the lectures 
given were placed in one part of the report; and the volume would be 
mproved in appearance and value if the lists of officers, etc., were put to- 
gether ; the same remark applies to the balance sheets, reports of sections, 
and abstracts of papers. 
1gtr Juner. 
