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The presidential address on the Fauna indicated in the 

 Lower Keuper Sandstone is an attempt to chissifv and extend 

 our knowledge of the animals which have left traces in the 

 Triassic rocks, and as such will be oi interest to biolog'ists and 

 ideologists alike. There is a g'reat field for work in this direction, 

 and the subject would well repay workers in other favourable 

 parts of the kins^dom. The accompanying^ illustration (kindly 

 lent by the Society) shows a slab of sandstone with natural casts 

 oS. two series of footprints. Other papers on Red Sea and Indian 

 Ocean Copepoda by A. Scott, and on Snake Venoms by Dr. 

 Hanna, will appeal to specialists. The volume closes by a paper 

 on the place of Geologv in Economics and Education by Professor 

 Lapworth. Although it is difficult to see how such a paper finds 

 a place in the Proceedings of a Biological Society, it will repay 

 careful study and forms perhaps the finest apologia for g'eolog'y 

 which has ever been written. 



BOTAXICAL SURVEY OF YORKSHIRE. 



We are g"lad tci find that steps have been taken to acquaint 

 the societies associated with the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 with the work of the Botanical Survey Committee. By the 

 g'enerosity of Mr. John Farrah, reprints of Dr. Smith's paper 

 on ' Botanical Survey for Local Naturalists' Societies ' {The 

 NaturtiUsi, January 1903) have been sent to the secretaries of 

 these societies, and it is hoped they will do their best to place 

 the copies entrusted to them in the hands of those most likely 

 to take up the scheme as there outlined. If further copies are 

 required, they may be had on application to Dr. Smith, York- 

 shire Colleg-e, Leeds. Some }ears ag-o {The Naturalist, 1899, 

 p. 353) Mr. Arthur Bennett, in commenting- on Lord de Tabley's 

 'Flora of Cheshire,' said: 'The future Floras of Britain will 

 not be quite in the same groove as those g^one by ; already the 

 idea that is being- so strong^ly worked out in America with reg^ard 

 to what Hackel called the oecolog-ical conditions of a Flora may 

 perhaps be looked for in Britain before longf.' Unfortunately, 

 local floras are still published, the authors of which seem quite 

 unacquainted with the advances made in this direction. 



It is the object of the survey to encourag^e investig-ations on 

 these lines, and we would strong-ly urg-e upon all eng-ag^ed in the 

 preparation of local floras to take advantag-e of the oppor- 

 tunities here aflforded, and we are confident the result would be 

 a step gfreatly in advance of the bare lists now so common. We 

 wish the scheme every success. 



1903 March 2. 



