246 Notes and Comments. 
brian, Bolland, and Furness. Each is dealt with in great 
detail, with particulars of the various measured sections, etc. 
The maps showing the positions of the various collieries illus- 
trate In a very graphic—almost startling—way how important 
the subject must be to Northumbrians. 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION REPORT. 
The ‘impossible’ has been achieved. The Report of the 
Dundee Meeting of the British Association, bound and indexed, 
was distributed towards the end of May. Seeing that, with 
the exception of the Index and the cover, it was all in type, 
and paged, at the Dundee Meeting, the achievement may not, 
to most people, seem miraculous. But in previous years we 
have been assured by the Secretary that, on account of the 
holidays of the staff (!), etc., it has not been possible to get 
the volume out earlier than the eve of the following meeting. 
Anyway, Mr. O. J. R. Howarth is to be congratulated upon 
having indexed, bound, and distributed the present volume 
within nine months of the meeting. Possibly in the years to 
come it may be possible to get the Report indexed within a 
month or two of the meeting. If the staff had holidays after 
the Report were issued things might be different! 
THE CONCEALED COALFIELD OF YORKSHIRE AND 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.* 
This Memoir is an outcome of explorations for coal, made 
for the most part since the publication of the Report of the 
Royal Commission on Coal Supplies in 1905. Much information 
has been obtained confirming or modifying the opinions held 
at the date of that Report. After a general introducti_n in 
Chapter I., Chapters II. and III. give an account of the Coal- 
bearing Carboniferous rocks and of their barren cover. In 
the subsequent chapters the limits of the concealed coalfield 
are discussed, and the results obtained by shaft-si kings and 
borings analysed. The records of numerous shaft-sections and 
borings form an appendix. The Memoir is illustrated by five 
text illustrations and three folding plates, of which one is a 
map giving the position of the shafts and borings and also 
showing by contours the depth to the coal-bearing strata. 
SHRIMPS AND POLITICS. 
Referring to Mr. Nelson’s note on the abundance of the 
small crustacean, Euthemisto compressa, on the Yorkshire 
coast a little while ago, The North Star has the following 
note under the head of ‘ Northern Lights,’ and oddly enough 
it is headed ‘A “ Fishy’ Story’ :—‘ Whenever our Radical 
contemporary attempts to deal with anything which has any 
* Mem. Geol. Survey. 1913.. Pp. vi.+122. 15s. 6d. 
Naturalist. 
