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are evidence of the increased interest now being taken in the 
Carboniferous Series. Mr. E. E. Gregory has a brief record 
of a striated rock surface near Bingley, and the Rev. E. M. 
Cole gives a summary of our knowledge of the Roman relics 
found at Filey. The author demonstrates that far too much 
importance has been attached to the discovery made on Carr 
Naze in 1857. 
A contribution of considerable interest is ‘On the Speeton 
Ammonites,’ by Mr. C. G. Danford. In this the Yorkshire 
Society is to be congratulated in obtaining a communication 
from this careful worker. It cannot, however, be commended 
on the way in which the blocks have been produced in illustra- 
tion of his notes. The Rembrandtesque effect of the illustrations 
may, Or may not, be artistic, but it certainly does not enable 
the species to be readily identified; in fact, some of the 
illustrations are quite worthless, and represent so much waste 
money. It is a pity the County Society did not exercise a little 
more tact in connection with these plates; had they done so 
they would have been of some practical use to workers amongst 
the Speeton fossils. When another society published Mr. Dan- 
ford’s paper on the Belemnites of the Speeton Series a year 
previously, it was illustrated in a way which was all that 
could be desired. The Ammonites Mr. Danford describes in 
the Yorkshire Geological Society’s volume were exhibited and 
described at the Flamborough meeting of the Yorkshire Natural- 
ists’ Union in June last. (See ‘ Naturalist,’ July 1906, p. 241). 
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One of the most recent productions from Browns’ Savile Press, Hull, is 
Essays upon the History of Meaux Abbey, and some Principles of 
Medizval Land Tenure. ~ Based upon a Consideration of the Latin 
Chronicles of Meaux (A.D. 1150-1400). By the Rev. A. Earle of Wansford, 
Driffield. 192 pages, price 3/6 net. It deals with the Abbey of Meaux, at one 
time so prominent in the East Riding, but of which now not a trace remains 
above ground. Mr. Earle tells his story in an interesting way, and enables 
the student of local history to get much valuable information without having 
to peruse the lengthy ‘Chronicles,’ which only the very enthusiastic would 
dare to undertake, 
A Picture Book of Evolution. By Dennis Hird. Part I., con- 
taining lessons from Astronomy, Geology, Zoology. Watts & Co., 1906. 
202 pages, price 2/6 net. 
This little book is professedly for the beginner, and it can certainly be 
recommended to anyone wishing to obtain a concise statement of the doc- 
trine of evolution. The work is apparently based upon six lantern lectures 
which have been prepared by the author, the illustrations being very largely 
those used with some of the lectures. Throughout, the author tells his story 
in simple language, and the wealth of illustration makes the book par- 
ticularly suitable as a present. 
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