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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Geographical Distribution of Vegetation in Yorkshire, Part 2, 

 by Dr. W. Q. Smith and W. M. Ranlcin, B.Sc. 'The Geogrraphical 

 Journal,' Aiii^fust 1903, p[). 141 to 178, with a coloured Map and several 

 Photographs. 



This second part of the survey of Yorkshire includes the 

 district from Wetherby and Thorp Arch northward to Malham 

 and the head oi' the dales of the Wharfe and the Nidd. It rises 

 to a heig-ht of 2,300 feet in Great Whernside (which must not 

 be confounded with the better-known Whernside at the head of 



Gordale Scar. 



the Ribble) and includes some of the best-known botanical 

 stations in the county, such as Malham Tarn, Malham and 

 Gordale Scars, Arncliflfe Clouder, Bolton Woods, and the banks 

 of the Wharfe at Thorp Arch. There is a great deal of lime- 

 stone rock, Carboniferous and Permian, so that the flora is 

 larger and more varied than in the tract included in the first 

 map. The text includes seven photographs of characteristic 

 stations, and it is prefaced by a short account of the geology of 

 the district by Mr. P. F. Kendall, of the Yorkshire College. 

 The rocks range from the Trias downward to the Silurian, but 

 the last is only very slightly represented. According to a 



1903 September i. 



