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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



In the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association (Vol. XXI., part lo)^ 

 Mr. M. A. C. Hinton has ' A Prehminary Account of the British Fossil 

 Voles and Lemmings,' with some remarks on the Pleistocene Climate and 

 Geography. In this he describes Mimomys, Evotomys, Arvicola, Pitymys, 

 I\Iicrotus, Lemmus, and Dicrostonyx. Of these, one is extinct ; and three 

 are extinct in Britain, though living elsewhere. 



The Annual Report of the Yorlcshire Pliilosophical Society is satisfactory, 

 the balance of income over expenditure being nearly ;^400. This is partly 

 due to the profit the Society made in connection with the York Historic 

 Pageant, which was held in its grounds. In addition to the Council's 

 Report, the list of additions to the Museum, and the Meteorological Report, 

 there are two valuable papers dealing with that important period of the 

 history of York, the Roman occupation. The first is an illustrated paper 

 on ' The Roman Pottery in the York Museum,' by Mr. Thomas May, of 

 Warrington. This is a continuation of the work published by Mr. May in 

 the previous report. Mr. George Benson writes on ' Excavations on the 

 .site of the Xorth-West Gateway of Eboracum.' The present writer has 

 recently had an opportunity of examining the Roman work exposed in Mr. 

 Milburn's yard, and can speak as to its interest and importance, and alsa 

 as to tlie excellence of Mr. Benson's plan and description. York is 

 fortunate in having an antiquary such as Mr. Benson, who takes detailed 

 particulars of important excavations. 



Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association, Part XV, 1908-10 

 (52 pp., 2, -). These contain a record of the Leeds Society's work during 

 the past two years. Besides the Secretary's report, report of the field 

 excursions, etc., there are abstracts of most of the papers read, some being 

 of distinct local interest. The editor and secretary, Mr. E. Hawkesworth, 

 writes on some boulder-like masses in Fireclay ; and Recent Deposits in 

 Airedale ; Mr. F. W. Branson writes on ' Radio-active Elements and Geo- 

 logy ; ' Dr. H. Lapworth on the Application of Geology to Public Works 

 Construction ; Prof. Kendall on Physical and Biological Changes at the 

 close of the Cretaceous period ; Mr. T. Sheppard on the ' Glacial History 

 of Holderness ' ; ' The Origin of Lakes,' by Mr. C. T. Whitmell ; ' Cannel 

 and its Affinities,' by Mr. S. Nettleton ; ' Fossil Plants,' by Mr. W. Heming- 

 way ; ' The Origin of the Trias,' by Prof. Kendall ; ' Reef Knolls,' by Mr, 

 E. Parsons ; and a ' Section in the Ganister,' by Mr. A. Gilligan. The 

 printers seem to have a good supply of broken type (see particularly page 

 41), and we don't like the inverted commas to some of the headings. 



The Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club, 1908-9 (Vol. II, 

 part 4, pp. 202-266, 2/-), form an unusually interesting report of the work 

 accomplished by that Society. Among the papers we notice ' Notes on the 

 Glacial Geology of the country between Loftus and Kettleness,' by Mr. F. 

 Elgee ; the Rev. G. J. Lane gives notes on the ' Jurasic Flora of Cleveland,^ 

 a subject also referred to by Mr. J. J. Burton in his report of the Geological 

 Section. Mr. IM. L. Thompson has a valuable report on Cleveland Coleoptera,. 

 and Mr. T. A. Lofthouse writes on the Lepidoptera of the same area. Mr. 

 J. W. H. Harrison gives a list of the local Spiders ; and Mr. T. W. 

 Saunders contributes a list of local Marine MoUusca ; Mr. Saunders 

 having been greatly assisted in his work by the Rev. F. H. Woods. There 

 is a short note on some fragments of Roman pottery, found in the church- 

 yard at Whorlton, by the Rev. J. C. Fowler, though we are not convinced 

 t'nat he has made out his case that ' This find proves occupation.' Judging 

 from tiie variety of subjects dealt with there would appear to be something 

 in the statement made by t'ne editor that ' there is surely plenty to employ 

 the keenest observer between a live beetle and an extinct mammoth, and 

 between ' the Cedar of Lebanon and the hyssop that groweth on the wall.' 

 There are several interesting plates in the volume. 



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