Reviews—Proceedings of Field-clubs. 129 
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEIGN NATURALISTS’ FInip- 
CLUB FOR THE YEAR 1868, and List of Members. Exeter, 1864. 
8vo. pp. 11, with a photograph. 
Transactions (No. 4), List or Members, AND ee OF THE 
Woo.HorrE NaTuRALISTS’ FIELD-CLUB, 1863 (pp. 49) ; TRANsAc- 
“tions (No. 5), 1864 (pp. 77). 8vo. Hereford. 
Bristot NatTurRALists’ Society. EsrasLisHep 1862. REPORT oF 
THE COUNCIL READ AND ADOPTED AT THE SECOND ANNUAL MErEt- 
ING OF THE SOCIETY, HELD May 51TH, 1864. With the Rules, and 
Lists of Officers and Members. Clifton, 1864. 8vo. pp. 19. 
List, Ruies, anp Notes oF Eni Mn LINCS OF THE CARADOG 
FIELD-CLUB, SHROPSHIRE. Established 18638. Ludlow, 1864. 
8vo. pp. 15. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE DupLEY AND MIDLAND GEOLOGICAL AND 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY AND Firtp-citus. No. 1, December 1862. 
With List of Members. Dudley. 8vo. pp. 23. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DupLEY AND MIpLAND GEOLOGICAL AND 
SCIENTIFIC Society AND Fieup-cLtus. No. 2, June 1863. In- 
cluding Appendix to List of Members. Dudley. 8vo. pp. 39. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL Society. Vol. iv. 
No. 12. Session 1863-64. Manchester, 1864. S8vo. pp. 19. 
HE titles above given of serials now before us serve to indicate 
the wide-spread and well-managed operations of naturalists and 
geologists in Britain, and some of the useful results of their research. 
We leave it for others to work out the statistics and history of the 
Societies and Field-clubs themselves, however interesting the subject 
may be; we shall take our casual collection of their Proceedings as 
a sample of the work they do, and proceed to point out some of the 
chief geological matters in which they have interested themselves. 
The veteran Naturalists’ Club of Berwickshire publishes an account 
and figure of a new fossil Sea-star ( Cribellites carbonarius) from the 
Mountain-limestone of Northumberland, with a notice of its associa- 
tion with Carboniferous Plants, from the pen of Mr. George Tate, 
F.G.S., who points out that, by careful observation, the difference of 
the fossils in successive layers of Carboniferous strata, in more than 
one instance, is found to show that marine conditions gradually 
gave way, ‘probably from a gradual alteration of level, and an influx 
of fresh water,’ the water becoming estuarine, and afterwards entirely 
fresh; and the remains of plants becoming more and more abundant. 
Messrs. Rupert Jones and G. Tate supply also a paper on some 
small Bivalve Crustaceans (Estheria striata, Candona (?) Tateana, 
and Beyrichia Tate), from the Carboniferous rocks of Berwickshire 
and Northumberland, illustrated by woodcuts. Mr. Turnbull’s Ad- 
dress to this Club contains an interesting account of the tastes and 
progress of the Club, as shown by their published ‘Transactions: 
Geology and Mineralogy have had 16 papers out of 215 since the 
Society began. 
The Tyneside Naturalists’ Field-club, near neighbours to ‘the fore- 
going, work as enthusiastically, and publish even "fuller Proceedings, 
the completion of a series of local catalogues of animals and plants 
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