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rij^lit. The British Association has had a committee working" 

 on general deHiiquencies of editors for years, and I recommend 

 to their notice the ^'orkshire Geoloj^ical Society. Another 

 thing- that strikes the editorial mind is the extreme reduction 

 of the maps in Mr. Carter's papers. By all means let the maps 

 be reduced so as to fall in to as small a space as is consistent 

 with expense and utility, but letter the orig-inal drawing's 

 sufficiently boldly that when reduced one has not to use a 

 microscope. Mention may be made of the singular custom of 

 publishing^ the proceeding's of the Council in a general publica- 

 tion, the details reg^arding^ illustrations printed on p. 489 are 

 surely better fitted for the Minute-Book of the Council than 

 for the public eye. 



The Transactions of the Hull Geological Society, 

 Vol. VL, Pt. I, impress one more favourably. Here is com- 

 mendable brevity and restraint in all the papers, doubtless forced 

 upon the editor by that excellent master, want of funds, but 

 evidently editorial. The result is that one reads such papers 

 right throug^h, and does not cast them aside with impatience at 

 the mass of detail, often quite unnecessary to print. It would 

 have been better if the Belemnites described in Mr. Danford's 

 paper had not been fig-ured upside down (perhaps the Editor 

 had Phillips' 'Yorkshire' in mind), and if the sections of those 

 fossils could have been g^iven on the same plates. Certain ugly 

 misprints occur, e.g. ' cordierite-geisses ' on p. 25 ; ' Rhoetic ' 

 on p. 80 ; and a bad slip in the second paragraph on p. 88. 

 The Bibliographical niatter is invaluable and will always be of 

 value ; the addition of an asterisk to those works in local 

 libraries is an excellent idea, and such information invariably 

 leads to presentations and therefore less imperfection in local 

 histor\-. The reproductions by photographic processes of views 

 and other objects can now be done so economically and well, 

 that smaller societies can almost compete with larger ones in 

 their wealth of illustration. Publications on Yorkshire Geology 

 are not behindhand in this respect. -C.D.S. 



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A Preliminary List of Durham Diptera, with Analytical 

 Tables. By the Rev. W. J. Winffate. With Seven Plates. 

 [8vo., papers, pp. vi. + 416 -f 7 plates and explanatory leaves]. 



This forms the second \ olume of a new series of the Trans- 



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