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part of the valley above the waterfall, giving evidence to show that 

 it is due to faults running along both sides of the valley, and is 

 in short what has been termed a ' block valley.' Several cases 

 are instanced where a valley follows the line of a fault. Thus 

 Eossemyrnut is capped by the Teleniark formation, and Mr. Kaldhol 

 believes that it is a sunken part, a line of fault following the valley, 

 for the granite on the opposite side of Grubbe Dal rises to about 

 the level of the summit of Eossemyrnut. In the Year Book 

 for 1902 Mr. Rekstad gives an example of a valley on the line 

 of a fault near Juklevasrusten, in the centre of the Hardanger 

 Vidde ; and in the Year Book for 1903 he gives another instance 

 in Gjuvedal, a small valley a little north of and nearly parallel to 

 the Maabodal, down which the Bjoreia flows. 



The ice-marking, perched blocks, moraines, etc., of the Glacial 

 Period, as well as the raised terraces, i-eceive attention in these 

 memoirs, and the whole work is well illustrated by a series of 

 photographs taken for the most part by Mr. Rekstad, and very 

 satisfactorily reproduced both as plates and in the text. In con- 

 clusion, we can confidently recommend the Hardanger Vidde as 

 a most interesting district, not easy to visit, but with plenty of 

 sections, though not infrequently, judging from the accounts of the 

 surveyors, a critical point is apt to be an inaccessible wall of rock 

 or concealed by snow or talus debris. H. W. Monckton. 



TIT. — A Handbook to the Geology of Cheltenham and Neigh- 

 bourhood. By L. Richardson, F.G.S. 8vo ; pp. xii and 

 268, with geological map, 19 plates, and 19 text-illustrationsi. 

 (Cheltenham : Norman, Sawyer, & Co., 1904. Price 5s, net.) 



rpHE Cotteswold Hills and the Vale of Gloucester have attracted 

 1_ a large amount of attention since Murchison and Lonsdale more 

 than seventy years ago made known the general structure of the 

 district, and stirred up interest in the rich fossil-beds of the Lias 

 and the Oolites. During these years the steady increase of know- 

 ledge has been fostered by the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, which 

 numbered among its earlier workers such men as H. E. Strickland, 

 James Buckman, John Lycett, P. B. Brodie, and Thomas Wright. 



Murchison's " Outline of the Geology of the Neighbourhood of 

 Cheltenham," published in 1834, was revised and augmented by 

 J. Buckman & Strickland in 1845 ; Lycett's Handbook of " The 

 Cotteswold Hills " and Hull's Geological Survey Memoir on " The 

 Geology of the Country around Cheltenham " were issued in 1857; 

 and Witchell's " Geology of Stroud " was published in 1882. 

 A study of these works shows the increasing attention paid to 

 the stratigi'aphy and palaeontology of the Cotteswold Hills and 

 bordering vales, while a kind of climax in minute subdivision of 

 the local strata and of the fossil genera and species has been reached 

 in the later works by Mr. S. S. Buckman. Inspired to a large 

 extent by the teachings of that palasontologist, or we might preferably 

 say field-palajontologist, Mr. Linsdall Richardson, who is Honorary 



