476 Brief Notices. 



" March 2. Paid to Snialey and one with hym for ij dayes clevyng 

 and makyng of pic-helves ...... xvjd." 



"June 15. Paid to Smaley for shotyng of a waloer l . iiijd." 



"June 28. Paid to Burton, Baker, Nyxson and Hill, beyng dryven 

 forth with the dampe of ther pit, for a day worke at the heye way 



xvjd." 



"Dec. 24. Paid to the pit ryves in parte of recompence for ther 

 paynes for gyeyng [ = directing] the workes . . . . xs." 



In 1526 a collier seems to have got about thirteen rookes of coal 

 per week, of which the hard was worth eighteenpence and the soft 

 twelve shillings, but by 1548 "the softe cole goeth with the harde 

 cole without anye diversitie of price", and "every rooke is ijs." In 

 1548 the cost of " syngkynge a pit" was "iiijs. the heght ", but how 

 much a ' heght ' was in depth does not here appear. 



IV. — Brief Notices. 



1. — Geological Survey of Sidmouth and Lyme Regis. — A second 

 edition has been issued of the Geological Survey Memoir on the 

 Geology of the Country near Sidmouth and Lyme Regis, 1911, 

 price Is. 6d. This memoir contains a description of the cliff 

 sections from Otterton Point by Sidmouth and Seaton to Lyme Begis, 

 and of the inlaud country round Honiton and Axrainster. The New 

 Bed rocks, the Bhsetic beds, Lias, Gault, Upper Greensand, and 

 Chalk are dealt with, and figures of many fossils from the famous 

 locality of Lyme Begis are included. There are also numerous 

 sections, and the superficial deposits, the landslips, and the economic 

 geology are described. The work has been written by Messrs. H. B. 

 Woodward and W. A. E. Ussher, with contributions by Mr. A. J. 

 Jukes-Browne. 



2. — "The Geowth of a Crystal" was the subject chosen by 

 Principal H. A. Miers for the Eighteenth Robert Boyle Lecture 

 delivered at Oxford in May, 1911 (8vo, pp. 32, Henry Frowde, price 

 Is. net). This is an interesting and popular account (in the highest 

 sense) of what is known concerning the general growth of crystals. 

 Although the author refers to what may be called the vitality of 

 a crystal, he points out that this " is not to be confounded in any way 

 with that of a living plant or creature". Much remains to be done 

 before the mysteries of the growth of crystals can be explained, but 

 the author makes several suggestive remarks that may stimulate 

 further research. 



3. — Guide to the Exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals 

 mentioned in the Bible. British Museum (Natural History), Special 

 Guide No. 5, 1911. Price 6d. — This work, which contains the latest 

 information on the several subjects of which it treats, will interest 

 a wide circle of general readers as well as students of natural history. 

 The section on minerals has been contributed by the Director of the 

 Museum, Mr. L. Eletcher, who remarks that scarcely any of the 

 specimens mentioned in the Bible were found in Palestine or were 



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