2i6 Reviews and Book Notices. 



We have received from the Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific 



Society its ' Recorders' Reports for 1908-1909, Natural History Section 

 (19 pp.)- The pamphlet contains a useful record of the Society's work 

 during the year. Mr. \V. Nowell writes on ' Flowering Plants ' ; Mr. J. 

 Needham has a note on ' Mosses, Hepatics and Fungi,' in which he says the 

 year has been the worst he has known for twenty years. Mr. W. Graves 

 has a lengthy report on ' Vertebrate Zoology ' in its various branches,, 

 and includes some new records for the district. ISIr. E. B. Gibson gives a 

 list of the Lepidoptera, and there is a list of Coleoptera taken from ' The 

 Naturalist.' Mr. J. E. Crowther has a list of the local Mollusca, and 

 Mr. J. H. Greenwood and Mr. E. Wager have a chapter on geology. 



Tlie Journal of tlie Derbysliire Arcliaeologieal Society for 1910 (Vol 

 XXXII.) is as usual, full of interesting matter, the editor being careful to- 

 restrict the scope of the papers to the area of the Society's operations. 

 There are a number of valuable archa?ological papers, which, however, 

 hardly come under the scope of our jovirnal. Amongst the items of more 

 general interest are notes on ' Excavation Discoveries in the Derwent 

 Valley,' when a specimen of an unusually well-preserved fossil fish, Acro- 

 lepis hopkinsi was obtained in the Lower Yoredales. Mr. H. Vassall. 

 describes an interesting Neolithic axe made of Borrowdale volcanic ash ; 

 Mr. W. Storrs Fox and Dr. C. H. Read have admirable papers on ' The 

 Ravencliff Cave, and its remarkable contents of pre-historic and Roman 

 relics,' and Mr. W. Smithard writes on ' The Roman Road between Little 

 Chester and ]\Iinning Low.' The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain gives his usual 

 welcome ' Zoological Record for Derbyshire,' 1909, which includes notes on 

 Mammals, Birds, and Insects, and there is a figure of a bronze relic from 

 Longstone, which much resembles the handle to a cooking vessel, although 

 it is suggested that it may possibly have held the Danish ' Raven.' A 

 ' History of Lead Mining in the Wapentake of Wirksworth ' by Mrs. Meade 

 Waldo is also included. The volume has a profusion of excellent illustra- 

 tions, and will take a prominent place amongst the annals of provincial 

 scientific societies. 



REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Fi'om Messrs. Cassell we have received further numbers of their interest- 

 ing publications ' Familiar Wild Flowers ' and ' The Story of the Heavens,' 

 each of which is being issued in serial form at 6d. each. 



Under the title of Gardening Difficulties Solved, Expert Answers to Ama- 

 teurs' Questions, edited by H. H. Tliomas ; jNIessrs. Cassell & Co. have issued 

 a useful handbook of 160 pages for the modest price of i/-. The volume 

 is well illustrated, and will undoubtedly go a long way towards clearing 

 away many of the trials and troubles of amateur gardeners. 



Yorksliire Type Ammonites, (edited by S. S. Buckman, Part 2, pp. 

 XIII. -X\I., iz plates and descriptions Nos. 9-22). We are pleased to 

 see that the second part of this handsome work has appeared so promptly. 

 It is, in all respects, equal to the first, which we have recently noted in these 

 columns. The following is a list of the species which are figured in the 

 present instalment : — Hildoceras levisoni, Pseudolioceras lythense, Denck- 

 mannia ritdis, Haugia beanii, Rhacoceras ambigiiiim, Caloceras bekheri,. 

 C. convolutum , Echioceras exortuni, Amaltheiis lenticularis, Uptonia ignota,. 

 Paltopleuroceras elaboratum, Fvechiella siibcarinata. With this number is 

 a useful table giving ' Table Zones and Yorkshire Lias Strata.' Of course,^ 

 the new names given are doubtless correct, and the most suitable, but there 

 will be others besides beginners who will 3-earn for the old-fashioned 

 names, and doubtless prefer, for example, the former Ammonites elabovatus 

 to the present Paltopleuroceras [very] elaboratum. _ 



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