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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Part XIII., Vol. II. of the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society 

 contains a paper by Dr. W. A. Cragie on ' The Revival of Languages and 

 Dialects,' and one on ' Place Names and Dialect Study,' by Mr. H. Alexan- 

 der. 



Transactions and Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural 

 Science, Vol. V., part 3. This part contains Mr. J. Menzies' paper on 

 ' Some Discomycetes of the Locality and their habits ' ; Dr. J. P. Sturrock's 

 addre.ss on ' Modern Aspects of Eugenics ' ; Mr. G. F. Bates' ' Notes on 

 Some Highland Rocks ' ; a full report of the society's meetings, and Mr. 

 Rodger's carefully prepared meteorological observations. There are 

 several plates. 



Vol. I., part 2 of the Yorkshire Numismatic Fellowship (Hull : A. Brown 

 and Sons, i/-) contains a summary of the Society's proceedings, an account 

 of the Spurn Lighthouse Token, the Calverley Token, Regal Coins struck 

 at York, Unpublished Yorkshire XVII. century tokens, a new Halifax 

 token, a new Hull medal, and York pennies of Edward the Confessor. 

 The contributors are Messrs. Sykes, Pickersgill, Sheppard, Hamer and 

 Wilkinson. There are several plates and other illustrations. 



The Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archaeological Society has 

 recently issued its Transactions, Vol. VI., for sessions 1906- 7-8-9-10 

 (LIII. -I- 100 pp.). They contain reports of the society's meetings, list 

 of members, photographs of past presidents, etc., the last-named being 

 referred to in an article entitled ' Olim inter nos primi : nunc eheu ! Decessi ; 

 nunquam obliti.' There are papers dealing with Herbert Spencer; New 

 Zealand Plants ; Sen Mut, an Egyptian Crichton ; ' The Influence of the 

 East on European History ' ; the English Novel, and Sinai Park. Some, 

 however, are of more local interest, viz., 'Noted Oaks near Burton,' and 

 t'ne ' "Breaking" of Barton Fishpond,' by J. E. Nowers; 'the Cannock 

 Chase Coalfield,' by G. M. Cockin ; ' the Annals of Burton Abbey,' by R. 

 T. Robinson ; ' Local Natural History Observations,' by C. G. Matthews ; 

 ' the Abbots of Burton Abbey,' by G. Appleby ; ' Dates of Arrival of 

 Summer Migrants,' by C. Hanson ; and a meteorological summary for the 

 hve years, supplied by Dr. J. M. Cowie. There are a number of illustra- 

 tions, those of the large oaks being of particular interest (see plate V). 

 We do not know what has been the editor's object in changing the colour 

 of the cover ; and the omission of the lettering on the back is certainly a 

 disadvantage. The ' black ' t^'pe used here and there in the text is much 

 too large. 



The Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. XVII., part 3, 

 for 191 1, wei^e issued on January 30th, as stated on the cover, and form 

 quite a good number. It contains Prof. Kendall's Presidential Address, 

 dealing with the progress in Yorkshire geology during the past half century ; 

 Mr. L. Richardson describes the Lower Oolites of Yorkshire, and his paper 

 has appendices by Messrs. Buckman and Paris ; Mr. G. W. Lamplugh 

 has an admirably illustrated paper on Spitsbergen Glacial Phenomena, 

 which is of particular value to British glacialists, and easily bursts Prof. 

 Bonney's Sheffield bubble. Dr. A. Wilmore describes the zones of the 

 Carboniferous Limestone south of the Craven Faults, and Mr. J. W. 

 Stather demonstrates the way in which the belemnites of the Yorkshire 

 Chalk vary in form as they occur in ascending order, a paper which shews 

 that the question ' What is a Species ? ' is not easy to answer. Dr. A. 

 Vaughan figures and describes a new coral from Ingleton, under the name 

 of Clisiophyllum iyigletoueiise. There are also obituary notices of J. R. 

 Mortimer and E. M. Cole, by Mr. Lamplugh and Mr. Sheppard respec- 

 tively. There is the annual report, and the financial statement, both of 

 which are satisfactory, but the printers have so frightfully guillotined this 

 part, resulting in it being considerably .shorter than any of the parts that 

 have been issued during the past seventy years, that the volume for 191 1 

 will for ever be an eyesore on our shelves. 



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