Notes and Comments. 



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Clnb is in a flourishing' condition. The principal articles deal 

 with ' A Fortnight in the Eastern Alps,' the ' Kleine Zinne from 

 Cortina,' 'A Holiday among the Horungtinder,' etc., which, 

 though possibly the work of Yorkshiremen, hardly come within 

 the scope of this Magazine, It is on turning to the part of the 

 Journal which more nearly refers to our own district, 'Jockey 

 Hole and Rift Pot,' etc., that we are disappointed. One is 

 christened ' Rift Pot ' because it is a rift in the limestone. 

 A hole through which the party wriggled is christened ' the 

 Eye,' and lest the name should be forgotten, one meets with 

 ' the Eye ' again and ag"ain. Details are g"iven of the rope 

 ladders, life lines, ropes, flare lamps, etc., etc. ; of the 

 'difficult climbing,' 'wriggling,' 'crawling,' 'negotiating'; 

 the 'great deal of hard work,' 'much pulling and pushing,' 

 'struggling,' 'many contortions,' and 'tremendous efforts'; 

 also of the accidents, additional bruises, etc. One ' explorer ' 

 had the misfortune to ' bump his knee ; ' another ' explorer ' 

 heard 'a stone of no great size falling,' which dislodged 

 others in its descent, but he rushed to aplacfe of comparative 

 safet\', and, notwithstanding the shock he experienced, he 

 ■quickly regained the surface, and received the ' cordial con- 

 gratulations of his comrades.' And so on.. ..But when one 

 comes to look for some scientific or other results of these 

 dangerous and difficult explorations, the search is in vain, 

 notwithstanding the fact that there are ' notes on the Geological 

 Features ' by another writer. We can only repeat the first 

 sentence of the paper referred to : — ' The fascinations of Pot- 

 holing do not appeal to all.' 



LANCASHIRE PALAEONTOLOGY. 



In some ' Notes on the Palzeontology of Sparth Bottoms, 

 Rochdale,' in the Transactions of the Rochdale Literary and 

 Scientific Society (Vol. 8), Mr. Baldwin gives particulars of the 

 \arious interesting geological discoveries that have been made 

 in the Coal Measures at Sparth Bottoms, Rochdale. Some of 

 the more interesting have already been referred to in these 

 columns. Nearly all of the specimens have been found by 

 members of the Rochdale Society since 1900, when a specimen 

 of Prestwichia rotundata was discovered and described. In his 

 present communication Mr. Baldwin figures two examples of 

 Anthnicomartiis, which we are kindly permitted to reproduce. 

 With regard to Fig. i , the author considers that this is probably 



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