Reviews — Geological Photographs. 609 



It is not easy to pick out any particular series of photographs for 

 special mention, but a set of seventeen prints from Mr. Charles C. 

 Buckingham and two from Mr. De Vere, all taken under the 

 auspices of the East Kent Natural History Society, seem to be of 

 exceptional interest. They illustrate the course and tributaries 

 of the Kentish river Stour, and their association with the springs 

 known as Bournes. Mr, Buckingham has also photographed 

 Eeculvers Church from the same points of view as Lyell's famous 

 pictures, and the result brings home the potency of marine denu- 

 dation and the need for coast defences. 



Mr. R. Vowell Shen-ing, working in conjunction with the Bourne- 

 mouth and District Society of Natural Science, sends some beautiful 

 prints of the Bournemouth cliffs; Mr. Mellard Reade contributes 

 some excellent photographs of the well-known gypsum boulder of 

 Crosby ; and Mr. Topham a series from the gravels of Eye in 

 Northamptonshire. The rhythmical fretting of limestone by water 

 in Hell Gill is illustrated by Mr, Rodwell under circumstances of 

 considerable difficulty, and the marine destruction of the Scarborough 

 landslips by Mr. Monckton, Mr, Leach sends photographs of 

 a mass of Carboniferous Limestone at Tenby, supposed to show 

 10,000 specimens of Productus, and, curiously enough, almost the 

 same post brought a notice that " the Corporation have for years 

 been breaking up the stone for road repair, and are now in possession 

 of a steam stone-breaker which will in the course of time cause this 

 natui-al curiosity to disappear, unless some steps are taken to 

 prevent it." 



Messrs. Muff & Wright have taken an ideal set of photographs 

 of the raised beaches and platforms of Cork, which are buried under 

 boulder-clay, blown-sand, and ' head ' ; Mr, Pledge continues to 

 illustrate Mr. Davies's work on the Purbeck and Portland of the 

 Haddenham district; Mr. Eobarts sends further contributions on 

 the geology of Kent and Surrey from the Croydon Natural History 

 and Scientific Society ; and Mr. Plews gives the first photographs 

 recorded from Cambridgeshire, 



The importance of the contributions of members of the Committee 

 will be realised from the fact that they are responsible for 426 

 photographs out of a total of 543. Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, one 

 of the earliest and most earnest of geological photographers, and 

 perhaps the pioneer of county photographic surveys, sends no less 

 than 270 prints out of his large collection of a lifetime. These 

 comprise a long series of the Yorkshire coast from Bridlington to 

 Whitby ; series from Cornwall, Norfolk, and Suffolk ; and our first 

 connected set from the Cambrian rocks of St. Davids, Mr. Bingley 

 contributes 76 prints taken in Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Anglesey, 

 and Carnarvon. Professor Reynolds's work is well represented by 

 illustrations from Hertfordshire, the Carboniferous area of Somerset, 

 and volcanic areas in Fife, Haddington, and Linlithgow. Last, but 

 not least, Mr. Welch makes a valuable gift of 35 prints taken in 

 Lancashire and Ireland, in connexion with the work of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club and of Mr, Praeger and Mr, Lamplugh. 



