88 Reviews — Brief Notices. 



3. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. — The only paper 

 of interest to geologists in the Transactions of this Society (vol. ix, 

 pt. v) is an excellent sketch of the life of Horace Bolingbroke 

 Woodward by his friend and colleague Clement lieid, illustrated by 

 a good portrait. 



4. Norwich. — The Report of the Norwich Castle Museum for 1913 

 has reached us. Beyond the accession of a series of Gault fossils from 

 Elstow, Bedfordshire, there seems nothing of importance to record in 

 the geological collections, but the general work carried on in the 

 Museum under Mr. Frank Leney, the curator, is most excellent, and 

 merits the highest commendation. 



5. A Norfolk Geologist. — In the Bulletin (173) of the New York 

 State Museum are reproduced two leaves from the notebooks of 

 Richard Cowling Taylor, the well-known Norfolk geologist, who 

 emigrated to the United States about 1830 and followed up his 

 researches in that country. These are printed in colours, deal with 

 American geology, and seem to connect him with the New York 

 State Geological Survey, a connexion apparently previously unknown. 



6. Rugby. — The Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society 

 for 1913 is not very encouraging so far as geology is concerned. It is 

 satisfactory to learn that the re naming and re-arrangement of local 

 fossils in the School Museum is proceeding, but there must be new 

 fossils to be found at Napton and a systematic search should be made. 



7. Liverpool Geological Society. — The President's (C. B. Travis) 

 address issued in the Proceedings (vol. xii, pt. i) dealt with 

 peneplanation in the British Islands, and forms a good summary 

 of the subject. The record of Triassic footprints is continued by 

 H. C. Beasley and F. T. Maid well ; some curious ctenoid markings on ' 

 Triassic slabs are described by Beasley as possibly equisetiform in 

 origin; and a paper by W. T. "Walker describes the Liassic outcrop 

 near Whitchurch, Shropshire. 



8. The Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society for 1914 

 contains a valuable paper by Dr. Wheelton Hind (p. 25) commenting 

 upon the interesting facies of the Millstone Grit fauna obtained from 

 the Cayton Gill Beds, which has "a large number of species common 

 to it and the Dibunophyllum Beds of the Carboniferous Limestone, 

 and does not contain the Goniatite fauna and its associated Lamelli- 

 branchia subsequently met with in the slate beds between the 

 different members of Millstone Grit ". The North American Prothyris 

 ehgans also found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland and at Congleton 

 Edge is reported by Dr. Hind as occurring in the Grit at Colsterdale. 



9. Paisley Abbey. — During excavations for the foundations of the 

 restored choir of Paisley Abbey a quantity of hazel-nuts, pieces 

 of hazel-wood, and willow stumps with other vegetable matter, were 

 found. These are discussed in a paper by the Rev. C. A. Hall and 

 Duncan Smith in the Trans. Paisley Phil. Inst, for 1914, where, 

 incidentally, a good deal of information relating to the district has 

 been brought together. 



