128 Some ?^ei>. ^nks. 



A Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals in the Department of Geology 

 and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition, 

 Svo, X. + 184 PP-. «>ven plates. London, 191 1. I'rice i/-. 



The first edition was published in 1907. In this revised edition the 

 chief alterations and additions are the following : — ^The omission of an 

 account of the Ivoenig and Gilbertson Collections (p. 9) owing to the 

 dispersal of the s]iecimens among the systematic series. The addition 

 of the Archa;ocyathina2 (p. 42). A revised account of the Cirripedia (p. 94). 

 Several ?lterations due to the re-arrangement of the Brachiopoda (p. 114). 

 An Appendix (p. 117) noting recent additions to the exhibited series of 

 Mollusca. Fig. 41 is an original figure of the under surface of Eurypteviis 

 fischeri. Fig. 49 is from a new drawing of Prntocaycinus longipes. Fig. 65A 

 represents a Senonian species of Membvanipoya. In making some of these 

 alterations the author. Dr. F. A. Bather, acknowledges the help of W. T. 

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A History of Withernsea, by G. T. J. Miles and William Richardson. 



Hull : A. Brown Oc Sons. zSii pp., price 5s. 



On the cover of this well-printed and well-bound volume are the words 

 ' A History of Withernsea ' ; on the first page inside, the word ' etc' in 

 small type, is added ; and on the title this ' etc' is replaced by ' with notes 

 of other parishes in South Holderness in the East Riding of the County 

 of York ' ; and when we get to the book itself we find that of its 286 pages 

 only 52 refer to Withernsea, and of these many are occupied by ' Lists of 

 Incumbents,' admittedly copied from Poulson's ' Holderness ' ; extracts 

 from Thompson's ' History of Welton,' etc., so that when we come to the 

 History of Withernsea proper it is rather disappointing. Apparently no 

 ])rehistoric remains are recorded for Withernsea,* and the interesting old 

 views of Withernsea Church in ruins (in Allen's ' Yorkshire '), and Owthorne 

 Church (in Thompson's ' Ocellum Fromontorium ') would certainly ha\ e 

 been more welcome than, say, the very modern ' Wesleyan Chapel ' 

 facing page 34. The authors, however, appear to be most interested in 

 giving ' Lists of Incumbents,' ' Inscriptions in Churchyards,' and extracts 

 from Registers and Accounts ; these are well enougli in their way, but they 

 are not what are nowadays expected as a ' History.' After Withernsea, we 

 find notes on Owthorne, Hollj'm, Tunstall, Holmjiton, Easington, Kilnsea, 

 and Spurn, and fourteen other places, with their Lists of Incumbents, 

 (from Poulson), etc. The frontispiece ' • • '-'' ^^ ton Constable Hall, 



which is miles away, and, judging from tu^ x.. .lot even mentionecl 



in the History. On page 236, under Welwick, is an- illustration of some 

 fragments of Roman Fots found at Withernsea, which should have appeared 

 more than 200 pages earlier in the book ; the seal of Hedon comes under 'Sunk 

 Island ' ; whilst here and there spaces have been filled in by the insertion 

 of primitive blocks from poor drawings, most of which obviously have no 

 connection with either Withernsea or any of the numerous other places 

 mentioned in the volume, and some of which are not even described. The 

 book, however, contains reproductions of one or two interesting maps 

 shewing the effect of the ravages of the sea, that of part of ' old Kilnsea 

 Township ' being particularly interesting. Personally we consider that 

 the authors, presumably young men, have been too ambitious, and would 

 have produced a much more valuable work if they had stuck to the place 

 named on the cover.- — F.S.A. 



Metallurgy, !)>• W. Borchers. Translated from the German by W. T. 

 Hall and C. R. Hayward. London : Chapman & Hall. v. -( 271 pp., 

 12/6 net. 



In this excellently illustrated \olume the author gives an outline of the 



* A few 'ua\e beeii figured elsew'nere ; one, a fine axe, in this journal. — 

 Ed. 



Naturalist, 



