Notes and Comments. 5 



THE GEOLOGY OF BOURNEMOUTH. 



Notwithstanding the fact that the Geological Survey is 

 being worked at high pressure in connection with the pro- 

 duction of important memoirs bearing upon requirements in 

 connection with the war, it is satisfactory to find that it is 

 steadily at work in producing its Memoirs bearing upon the 

 Geology of the different parts of the country. It has recently 

 published the second edition of the ' Geology of the County 

 around Bournemouth,' by H. J. Osborne White, the first 

 edition of which, by the late Clement Reid, appeared in 1898. 

 The present memoir contains 80 pages with illustrations, and 

 is sold at the low price of 2/-. With it is issued a new edition 

 of sheet 329, which is an admirable example of colour printing, 

 13 different strata being represented. At the bottom of the 

 sheet is a useful section of the country. The map is sold at 1/6. 



LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS. 



The Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union Transactions for igi6 

 have recently been published, and presumably the present issue 

 is the first part of Vol. IV., as the title page and index of Vol. 

 III. are inserted, though that seems to be the only evidence. 

 It is mindful of the earlier publications of this useful Society, 

 inasmuch as the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock is much to the 

 fore. There is his admirable presidential address on the Flora 

 of Lincolnshire, Sequence Sections ; he contributes the 

 botanical report for 1916 ; a note on ' Two Beetles and Two 

 Flies ' ; he is partly responsible for the Report on the Shells, 

 and, together with Thomas Warner Woodruffe-Peacock, he 

 contributes a paper on Thrush Stone Studies. In addition to 

 the items mentioned it is possible that he wrote the obituary 

 notice of John Hawkins, which includes notes from the Rev. 

 Woodruffe-Peacock's diary. We think that the editors might 

 have appropriately included the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock's 

 portrait as frontispiece, though we are very glad to see the illus- 

 tration of Dr. W. Wallace, who was president some years ago. 

 Other items in the Transactions are ' The Presidents (sic) of 

 the L.N.U.' William Wallace ; ' The " General " Secretary's 

 Report' ; a Paper on the Lias Brickyards of S.W. Lincolnshire, 

 by A. E. Trueman ; Reports on Conchology, by W. Denison 

 Roebuck and J. F. Musham ; Entomology, by G. W. Mason ; 

 Geology, by H. Preston ; Vertebrata, by Rev. F. L. Blathwayt ; 

 and a note on ' Laverna epilobiella,' by G. W. Mason ; A 

 Record of the Whiskered Bat in Lincolnshire ; and a note on 

 ' A Fungus and its Beetles/ by T. W. Woodruffe-Peacock. 

 We are glad to find that the present conditions have not 

 interfered with the nature of the work of our Lincolnshire 

 friends. 



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