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of his country, has produced this concise and useful account of the 

 past and present mining industries around Keswick, their failures and 

 successes, and their present abeyance, in order to perform a patriotic 

 duty, by correcting a very prevalent, but erroneous, notion respect- 

 ing the mineral deposits of the Lake District, with the hope of 

 dii'ecting more attention to the subject, so that it may at some future 

 time become as famous for its mineral productions as it is now for 

 its beautiful scenery. J. M. 



IV. — Illustrations of Fossil Plants ; being an Autotype Eepro- 

 duction of Selected Drawings, prepared under the supervision 

 of the late Dr. Lindley and Mr. W. Hutton, between the 

 years 1835 and 1840, and now for the first time published by 

 the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical 

 Engineers. Edited by G. A. Lebour, F.G.S., Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne. Eoyal 8vo., containing 64 Illustrations in Autotype, 

 with Portrait of W. Hutton. (1877: Published for the 

 Institute by Andrew Eeid, Printing Court Buildings. London : 

 Longmans & Co.) 



THE " Fossil Flora " of Lindley and Hutton has been for more 

 than forty years a standard work on British fossil plants, and it 

 is hoped that it may be still further supplemented by the publication 

 of the promised fourth volume under the able superintendence of Mr. 

 W. Carruthers, F.E.S., containing not only corrections of former 

 descriptions, the result of new observations, but the addition of 

 many new and interesting forms which have appeared in this 

 Magazine, and other Geological Journals, besides the special 

 memoirs by Mr. Binney in the Pal^ontographical Society and 

 Prof. Williamson in the Transactions of the Eoyal Society since 

 the publication of the original work. 



The study of fossil botany has been much advanced during late 

 years, by the issue of numerous and important memoirs on fossil 

 plants both in Europe and America, so that ample means exist for 

 the further comparison of the British forms with those of other 

 continental areas. Among the more general works of interest are 

 Dr. Dawson's Acadia, Eogers's Pennsylvania, Prof. L. Lesquereux 

 on the Cretaceous and Tertiary floras of America ; those by Geinitz, 

 Mougeot, Ettingshausen, Saporta, and Goppert, the botanical parts 

 of the Palseontographica, and of the Paleontologie Fran^aise, 

 Schimper's Paleontologie Vegetale, M. Grand Eury's "Carboniferous 

 Flora of Central France," and other papers in the Spanish, Italian, 

 and Eussian journals. 



The present volume may be considered as an addenda to the 

 " Fossil Flora," as it consists of a series of sixty-four plates, repro- 

 duced by the autotype process, of a selected number of original 

 drawings, which had evidently been prepared for a continuation of 

 that work. 



These drawings formed part of a large collection belonging to the 

 late Mr. W. Hutton, and were presented to the North of England 

 Mining Institute by Mr. Hubert Laws. Having been prepared 



