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35 feet (about 12 feet below made ground), containing, irregu- 
larly stratified in the loose marl, a large quantity of gypsum, 
varying in tint from an almost pure white to a very deep red. 
In the marl, numerous large rhomboidal crystals of selenite 
were obtained, being found in separate pockets. Although 
there are disused gypsum pits in the neighbourhood, I have 
been unable to find any record of the presence of such crystals. 
I collected some specimens, which are preserved in the Dorman 
Memorial Museum, Middlesbrough.—W. Y. Veircu, Middles- 
brough. 
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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Sussex— 
Entomology. A. Constable & Co. 
The Entomological portion of another of the Counties of the Victoria 
History has been issued. Sussex, entomologically, is one of the best 
investigated of our Counties, and as the compilation of the lists of species 
in the various orders has been done by thoroughly competent specialists, 
we are not surprised to find this portion of Vol. I. as satisfactory as it is 
voluminous. The whole is edited by Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and he and 
Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, M.A., are chiefly responsible for the Lepidoptera, 
though it is easy to see that the veteran Sussex entomologist, the Rev. 
E. N. Bloomfield, M.A., has had a considerable share in the work on most 
of, if not all the orders.- Besides these, the services of other equally well- 
known authorities, have been enlisted. The Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., 
for the Coleoptera; Messrs. Edward Saunders, F.L.S., and Mr. Claude 
Morley, for the Hymenoptera; Mr. W. J. Lucas, F.E.S., for the Neuroptera 
and Trichoptera; Mr. Malcolm Barr, F.L.S., for the Orthoptera; Mr. J. H. 
A. Jenner, for the Diptera; and Messrs. E. A. Butler and A. C. Vine for 
the Aphides, etc. Every order seems to have been carefully, and so far as the 
species are known, exhaustively done, and an improvement on some of the 
earlier County lists, is that in all the orders, precise localities for the species 
are given. . It would be invidious to select any one list as better than another, 
though naturally, from the fact that one of our hardest working, and best 
authorities on the ‘ Micros,’ has spent so large a portion of his life in the 
County, the Lepidoptera take up a far greater space than any other. The 
Coleoptera come next, then the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Neu- 
roptera and Trichoptera, and Orthoptera, respectively. It may be worth 
while stating here, for future reference, that the only Sussex specimen of 
Hadena peregrina (of which there are probably only some half-dozen British 
caught examples known), recorded in this Sussex list, has, since the dispersal 
of the late Dr. P. B. Mason’s collection, in which it stood, found a resting 
place in my own cabinet. 
The vaiue of these county histories to entomological science cannot be 
estimated, for although there are a few most admirable county lists of 
Lepidoptera, and more would undoubtedly have been forthcoming; this 
splendid undertaking has stimulated the publication of them at an infinitely 
more rapid rate than would otherwise have been the case. Besides 
this, we now get the advantage of lists of species in all the orders in 
one volume, and can ascertain at a glance what has been done entomo- 
logically in each county ; and every specialist knows where to refer to for 
the information he requires. Every naturalist should possess the volume 
relating to his own county, and every Municipal Library ought to contain 
the whole series.—G. T. P. 
Naturalist, 
