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not necessarily confined to papers discussed by the Society, 

 and in addition contains an excellent summary of current 

 antiquarian literature. Among the contents of Part i are 

 well illustrated Reports on the Excavations at Stonehenge, 

 by Lt.-Col. Hawley ; ' The Discovery of [Roman] Silver at 

 Traprain Law,' by A. O. Curie ; and ' An Imperfect Irish 

 Shrine,' by E. C. R. Armstrong. 



THE SELBORNE MAGAZINE. 



The Selborne Magazine, No. 344, covers the period Aug. 

 1920 to Jan. 1921. The editor considers that probably 

 short notes are more interesting than long articles, and 

 consequently gives short notes. He is no doubt correct in this, 

 but the scientific value of articles should be considered as 

 well. Some of the most useful articles appearing in The 

 Naturalist, for example, could hardly be called ' interesting.' 

 Mr. Mark Webb contradicts a statement made by E. K. 

 Robinson to the effect that ' Gilbert White was not, as often 

 represented, a retiring and unambitious student of nature; on 

 the contrary his letters showed by internal evidence that they 

 were written for publication.' Evidently a case of ' set an 

 unambitious student to catch an unambitious student.' 



WESTPHALIAN MEASURES OF YORKSHIRE. 



Following the paper on the Ecology of Plants from the 

 Westphalian Series of East Glamorgan, at a recent meeting 

 of the Geological Society of London, Prof. P. F. Kendall 

 stated that : ' In the Westphalian measures of Yorkshire the 

 roofs of many seams — for example, the Silkstone, Middleton 

 Main, Haigh Moor, and Parkgate — contained prostrate stems 

 of Sigillaria and " pot-holes " ; the casts of hollow tree- 

 stumps were also of frequent occurrence in similar positions. 

 He had never observed Lepidodendroid trunks along with 

 them : on the other hand, the roof of the Barnsley Bed was 

 renowned as a source of fine fern-like plants. With regard 

 to the habitat of the different types, whereas Lycopods 

 commonly, and Calamites more rarely, were to be found 

 rooted in the position of growth, he could not recall a single 

 instance in which unequivocal evidence of fern-like plants 

 in the attitude of growth had come under his observation. 

 The speaker had been enabled, by the generosity of the owaiers 

 of collieries in Yorkshire, to obtain a unique suite of thin 

 sections, exhibiting the whole thickness from floor to roof of 

 the Barnsley Bed, from six pits, and he had hopes of ultimately 

 ■covering the entire field from Leeds to Nottingham.' 



LIVERPOOL BIOLOGISTS. 



We have recentl}^ received Volume XXXIV. of The Pro- 

 ceedings, etc., of the Liverpool Biological Society (184 pp., 

 price 10/6) which includes more than might be assumed frcr.i 



1921 Mar. 1 



