Notes and Comments. 3 
LIVERPOOL GEOLOGISTS. 
Tuart our geological friends in Liverpool are as enthusiastic as 
ever, is shown by the regular appearance of the ‘ Proceedings 
of the Liverpool Geological Society,’ in a brilliantly coloured 
cover. Part 2 of Vol. X., containing particulars of the work 
accomplished in the Society’s forty-seventh session, is recently 
tohand. The principal items are :—(1) The President’s Address 
(presumably by Mr. H. C. Beasley), in which he concludes that 
‘The secrets of the Trias are only to be discovered by the study 
of the desert regions of the world existing as they do in each 
of the continents’; (2) ‘ The Colorado Canyon and its lessons,’ 
by W. M. Davis, of Harvard; (3) ‘The Pleistocene Clays and 
Sands of the Isle of Man,’ by T. Mellard Reade and Joseph 
Wright. What would the Liverpool geologists do without these 
two veterans, who must be congratulated on their enthusiasm, 
and on the persistency with which, by means of their lists of 
foraminifera, they endeavour to drive nails in the coffin of the 
glacialists. But this coffin is not yet made,* and if ever it is, 
we doubt whether the numerous lists published by Messrs. 
Reade and Wright will have had anything to do with it. On 
the other hand, the day may come (and may it be long post- 
poned), when the last of the ‘submergers’ will be sent to sea, 
Viking-like, and be heard of no more; as it is, they ‘pass on 
and on, and go from less to less.’ Mr. J. Lomas gives an ac- 
count of his examination of ‘The Dwyka in South Africa,’ 
which is illustrated by two blocks from photographs. Mr. 
W. D. Brown writes ‘On Some Erratics of the Boulder Clay in 
the Neighbourhood of Burscough,’ and gives the results of 
experiments upon boulders by artificial sand blast. Ina lengthy 
and elaborate paper, Messrs. T. M. Reade and Philip Holland, 
conclude their useful researches among ‘Sands and Sediments.’ 
This is illustrated by two excellent plates. 
LEEDS GEOLOGISTS. 
Our Leeds Geological friends must be congratulated upon 
placing on record an account of their doings during the years 
1g00-5.+ This record appears in a pamphlet of 52 pages, and 
contains particulars of the officers for each year, titles of papers 
read, etc., from the twenty-seventh to the thirty-first session. 
There are abstracts of papers on ‘The Airedale Glacier,’ by 
* Some think that a coffin will not be required—as the glacialists will be 
cremated | 
+ ‘Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association,’ Part XIII., 1900-1, 
1901-2, 1902-3, 1903-4, 1904-5. Price 1/6. Jowett & Sowry, Printers, Leeds. 
1907 January 1. 
