Brief Notices. 525 
Fifty Years’ Existence and Work, has been prepared by a former 
President, Mr. W. Hewitt, B.Sc. (Liverpool, C. Tinling & Co., 1910, 
pp. 117). The Society was founded on December 18, 1859, at 
a meeting held at the residence of G. H. Morton. An excellent 
portrait of him is given, and there are portraits also of C. Ricketts, 
T. Mellard Reade, and Joseph Lomas, as well as illustrations of the 
footprints of Cheirotherium and of the gypsum boulder of Great 
Crosby. An account of the work accomplished by the Society, a list 
of papers published in the Proceedings, and biographical notices of 
some past members are included in the volume. 
7. Correswotp Natvxratists’ Fretp Crvs.—The first part of vol. xvii 
of the Proceedings of this Club is sumptuously illustrated with 
twenty-one plates and a number of text-figures. Geological articles 
dominate. Among these is a sketch of ‘‘Some Glacial Features in 
Wales and probably in the Cotteswold Hills”, by Mr. L. Richardson, 
who gives an account of the prominent glacial phenomena in the 
region of Snowdon, and draws attention to glacial features in the 
Brecon Beacons and in the amphitheatral hollows of the Cotteswolds. 
The Rey. H. H. Winwood records a section of the White Lias (Upper 
Rhetic) at Saltford, near Bath. Mr. Richardson further contributes 
a detailed account of ‘‘ The Inferior Oolite and Contiguous Deposits of 
the South Cotteswolds”’. 
8. ‘‘Tuxr Votcanic Rocks or Vicrorta”’ formed the subject of the 
presidential address delivered by Professor E. W. Skeats in 1909 to 
Section C (Geology and Mineralogy) of the Australian Association for 
the Advancement of Science. 
9. GrotogicaL Survey or THE Transvaat.—‘‘ The Geology of the 
Country round Zeerust and Mafeking,” by Mr. A. L. Hall and 
Dr. W. A. Humphrey, 1910, is the title of an explanation of Sheets 
5 and 6 of the Survey Map of the Transvaal. The geological 
formations belong to the Dolomite and Pretoria Series, with intrusive 
and contemporaneous igneous rocks. The structure of the region, the 
drainage and water-supply, the Malmani goldfield, and the lead and 
zine deposits of the Marico are described. 
10. A WeatpeEn ANnoponrs.—In 1856 Beckles referred to 
‘“‘Anodon(?)” in his paper ‘‘On the Lowest Strata of the Cliffs at 
Hastings” (Q.J.G.S., vol. xii, 1856, pp. 291, 292), a mixture of shells 
some of which are obviously Unios. Mr. R. B. Newton (Proc. Malac. 
Soc., vol. ix, June, 1910, pt. ii, p. 114) has now gone carefully into 
the subject and finds that an undoubted Anodonta does occur in 
the Wealden beds along with the various Unios so often met with. 
He figures and describes a beautiful specimen of the fossil, which 
he calls 4. Becklest, from the Fairlight Clays of Hastings. This forms 
part of the Rufford Collection now in the British Museum, and seems 
to be the oldest known true Anodonta yet described. 
11. Groroercan Survey or Eeypr.—A Report on ‘“‘ The Building 
Stones of Cairo Neighbourhood and Upper Egypt”’, by Dr. W. F. Hume, 
Director, is issued as Survey Department Paper, No. 16, 1910. It 
comprises full particulars of the white and yellow nummulitic 
