BiBLioGRAi'HY : (;eoi.O(;y and PAi,/i>:oNroi.O(;v, i88S. 137 



M. Sttrrup. Lancashire. 



On Foreign Boulders in Coal Seams [records numerous cases in Laiicrrshire 

 collieriesj. Rep. Brii. Assoc, for 18S7, pp. 686-688. 

 A. .Stkahan. Westmorland, West Yorkshire, and Lancashire. 



The Geology of the Country around Kendal, Sedbergh, Bowness, and 

 Tebay, by W. T. Aveline and T. McK. Hughes, 2nd ed. Mem. Geol. 

 Surv. England and Wales (expl.anation of (Juarter-shect 98 N.K.) [chap. 1. 

 describes the pliysical geology of the district ; ii. the Lower I'aliTOzoic rocks ; 

 iii. the Carljoniferous system ; iv. the Shap granite and igneous dykes ; and 

 V. the (llacial and other superficial deposits ; an appendix gives lists of the 

 fossils, inchiding a table by Prof. Lapworth showing the distribution of the 

 Ciraptolites]. 8vo, 94 pp. and iii. plates, London, 1888. 

 R. A. SuMMiiKi lEi.r). Yorkshire. 



Boulders at North Stainley, near Ripon [details of a large Carboniferous 

 gritstone l)Oulder at North Stainley, and notes upon others in the district]. 

 Naturalist, Nov. 1888, p. 345. 

 A. N.5RMAN Tati.:. Yorkshire. 



Scientific Aspects of Health Resorts. No. i. Harrogate [the special 

 .-eolo'dcal features of this district briefly reviewed, with a diagrammatic 

 section through the Harrogate anticlinal from Saltergate Hill to Plumpton 

 Rocks given ; notice and views of Brimham Rocks added]. Research, 

 July 1888, pp. 5-7 and illustrations. 

 A. NORMAN Tate. Derbyshire. 



On the Colouring Matter of the Mineral ' Blue John ' [ascribing the purple 

 colour of this fluor-spar to organic matter, though a minute quantity of iron 

 is also present]. Proc. Liverp. Geol. Soc, 1888, vol. v. pp. 384-385. 

 T. T. H. Tkali.. Northern Counties in general. 



British Petrography: a Description of the Ordinary Rocks of the 

 British Isles [the early parts of this work were noticed in the Bibliography 

 for 18S6 ; the whole volume is now issued, and forms a most useful addition 

 to the literature of the subject ; the North-Country rocks hguied include, 

 besides those already noted, Andesitic Dolerite of Preston (xxx), Ouartz-felsite 

 of Ridlees Burn (xxxi), Mica-trap of Swindale Beck (xxxii), Chiastolite Slate 

 of Skiddaw (xxxiii), Biotite-Granite of Shap (xxxv), Enstatite-Augite-Andesite 

 (xxxvi) and Enstatite-Porphyrite (xxxvii) of the Cheviots, Perlitic Felsite of 

 Long Sleddale (xxxviii), and Augite-Granite of Cheviots (xxxix)]. viii and 

 469 pp. and xlvii plates, roy. 8vo. London, 1888. 

 O. ToRKi.i,. York S. and Lincolnshire. 



On the Extension of the Scandinavian Ice to Eastern England in the 

 Glacial Period [the ice-stream from southern Scandinavia crossed the North 

 Sea to Ilolderness and Lincolnshire; the ' Rhombenporphyr ' of Christiania 

 has been found at (Irimsby, and the syenite of Fredriksvarn in Holderness]. 

 Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1887, pp. 723-724 ; abstract in ' Nature,' vol. xxxvi. 

 p. 573, 1888. 

 R. H. Traoijaik. Derbyshire and Lancashire. 



New Paljeoniscidse from the English Coal-Measures [the new species 

 described include Eloimhthys biniuyi from Stanton, Derbyshire; Khadi- 

 nichthys plant iimm Colleyhurst, near Manchester, and Burnley, and Acrolepis 

 wi/soiii from the Yoredale shales of Turnditch near Belper]. Geol. Mag., 

 1888 dec. iii. vol. v. pp. 251-254. 

 W. A. E. UssiiER, A. J. Jukes-Brownk, and A. Strahan. Lincolnshire. 

 The Geology of the Country around Lincoln, Mem. Geol. Surv. England 

 and Wales (explanation of Sheet 83) [notes on the Carboniferous, Permian, 

 and Trias are given by Mr. W. H. Dalton ; succeeding chapters describe the 

 Rhaetic rocks near Gainsborough; the Lower, Middle, and Upper Lias, 



May 1890. 



