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282 — Brief Notices. 
awaited with some interest. It is a report that necessitated and has 
received great care and much laborious and tedious work. The 
material came from eleven borings in the Mallee district, starting 
6 miles from the South Australian boundary and penetrating some 
20-30 miles or more in a direct east line into Victoria. The first ten 
were sunk from 200 to 400 feet and the last one to 600 feet, for the 
special benefit of Mr. Chapman’s report. Water was met with at 
170-250 feet from the surface and has risen from 10 to 70 feet in the 
borings. Full details of each boring are given, and the results of 
the fauna met with are appended. ‘lhe report should set at rest the 
vexed question of the age of these Tertiary deposits, for no trace of 
a Nummulite was found. The paper is illustrated by Mr. Chapman’s 
rough but characteristic sketches of the microzoa, by photographs 
of the mollusca, and four sections of rock. We venture to suggest 
that the plates would have been improved if printed numerals had 
been cut up and affixed to the prepared plates, instead of their being 
inserted with the pen. 
VII.—Brizr Novices. 
1. Yorxksurre’s Conrrisurions to ScleNcE: witad A BrsLioGRaPHY 
oF Narorat Hisrory Pustications. By T. Suepparp. 8y0; 
pp. 223. London, 1916. Price 5s. net. 
‘{\HIS is a carefully compiled account of the Academies and 
periodical publications belonging to Yorkshire, to which are 
added notes on other publications which contain matter relative 
to the county. It forms a sort of supplementary volume to 
Mr. Sheppard’s recently published Bibliography of Yorkshire 
Geology (Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc.). We hope the labour expended 
will have its reward in a full appreciation by all Yorkshire geologists 
and naturalists. 
2. An American Carzpontrerous Fauna.1.—The fauna of the 
Morrow Group occurring in Oklahoma and Arkansas is critically 
considered by Mr. Mather and a large number of new species 
described. ‘The fauna, which occurs in three limestone lenticles in 
about 400 feet of rocks, is of importance because the associated fossil 
plants fix its age as Pottsville, and it shows an interesting com- 
mingling of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian forms, which are 
clearly distinguished as the residual and proemial elements in the 
paper. The fauna is compared with others in the Western States 
and also with the ‘‘ Bergkalkschichten” of Mjatschkowa and. a 
similar fauna in Spitzbergen. Finally, it is compared with the 
Pendleside fauna. Judging from the figures given in the fifteen 
plates it is not improbably very similar to that of the uppermost beds 
of the Carboniferous Limestone in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, the 
zone D?, 
3. British Fosstt Insrcrs.2—The Lacoe Collection in the United 
States National Museum contains some fossil insects collected by 
1 Kirtley F. Mather, ‘‘ The Fauna of the Morrow Group of Arkansas and 
Oklahoma’’: Bull. Sci. Lab. Denison University, vol. xviii, pp. 59-284, 
December, 1915. . 
27, D. A. Cockerell, ‘‘ British Fossil Insects’’: Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. xlix, pp. 469-99, pls. lx—viii, December, 1915. ; 
