180 Reviews — Simpson'' s Yorkshire Lias. 



Glacial, and Post-Glacial deposits. Eecords of many well-borings 

 are included. 



5. — The Geology of the Country around Fakenham, Wells, 

 AND Holt. By Horace B. Woodward. 1884. pp. 57. 

 Price 2s. 

 In this Memoir also a portion of Norfolk is described. The 



formations comprise Chalk, Crag, Glacial and Post-Glacial deposits. 



Lists of fossils from the Chalk and Crag are given. 



6. — Explanation of Horizontal Sections. Sheet 128. Sections 



of the Suffolk Cliffs at Kessingland and Pakefield, and at Corton. 



By J. H. Blake, pp. 8. Price 2d. 



In this short explanation Mr. Blake gives a concise description of 



the beds exhibited in the coast section. It is intended to accompany 



the engraved sheet of sections. The beds described belong to the 



" Forest-bed and Chillesford Series," the " Glacial Drift," and 



Eecent deposits. The fossils of the various divisions are noticed, 



and considerable imjDortance is attached to the " Rootlet-bed," which 



in the opinion of the author " shows a distinct break or unconformity 



between the Pliocene beds and the overlying Drift." 



III. — A Sketch of the Geology of Suffolk. By J. E. Taylor, 

 Ph.D., F.L.S., F.G.S. [Reprinted from White's History, Gazetteer, 

 and Directory of the County.] Sheffield, 1884. Pp. 19. 



EXCELLENT sketches of the geology of various English 

 counties have been contributed from time to time to White's 

 Histories. Thus the geology of Hampshire, and that of Leicester- 

 shire and Rutland were prepared by Mr. W. J. Harrison (1877) ; 

 that of Devonshire, by Mr. M. Townshend Hall (1878) ; Lincoln- 

 shire, by Mr. Harrison (1882) ; and Norfolk, by Mr. John Gunn 

 (1883). We have now been favoured by Dr. Taylor with a new 

 edition of his Geology of Suifolk, the first edition of which was 

 noticed in the Geological Magazine for 1874 (p. 268). In the 

 interval a number of papers dealing with the geology of this county 

 have been published, and these are duly noticed by Dr. Taylor, 

 who has himself contributed much to our knowledge of the local 

 geology. 



IV. — The Fossils of the Yorkshire Lias described from 

 Nature. With a carefully measured Section of the Strata, and 

 the Fossils peculiar to each. By Martin Simpson. Second 

 Edition, 1884. Whitby (sold at the Museum) ; and London, 

 John Wheldon. Price 6s. 



R. SIMPSON is well known to geologists who have investi- 

 gated the sections on the Yorkshire coast, as the Curator of 

 the Whitby Museum, and as a most enthusiastic student of the 

 fossils of the district. For nearly fifty years he has occuj)ied his 

 post at the Museum, and early in 1843 (as he tells us in the preface 

 to this volume) he published descriptions of more than one hundred 



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