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H. J. Johnstone-Lavis, F.G.S., who was a member of the party, 
secured a fine specimen of Pleurotomaria, species not yet 
determined. 
Leaving the brickyard and taking the road to Pocklington, 
one or two unimportant sections in the Lower Chalk were 
noted. 
Nearing Pocklington the hill to the north-east of the town was 
ascended, and on the brow the Lower Lias was found well exposed ; 
but the upper part of the hill appeared to be covered with chalk 
débris 
The usual vote of thanks ‘to the Chairman concluded the 
proceedings.—W. F. B 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
en recent elections to the vi a A the Geological Society include 
Mr. Kynaston, B.A., of Durham; se S. Platt, of Rochdale; and 
Mr. W. M. P Butehings: of Newcastle-on- “es 
We are pleased to see in ioe ‘Trish Naturalist ’"—which, by the way, has 
dhenae | its outward aspect—the commencement of Dr. Sc harff’s papers on * The 
Trish Wood-Lice,’ which are to ise descriptions a figures of all the British 
species, and are calculated to. - of considerable service to students of an obscure 
and neglected group of anima 
extinct as a European species, should effective measures not be taken to put a stop 
to the harcpnw a their nests and eggs by unscrupulous collectors. 
poo 
The monographs which the Geological Survey has begun to issue on definite 
groups of — ons in this country, wi ill be welcomed by geologists who hav ve 
tried to obtain connected i the individual 
quarter-sheets - the one-inch ma These latter, with all their excellencies, are 
terribly hampered by official red-tape, and inevitably remind one o iceman 
who toning me cross the street to interfere in a scuffle because it was ‘ outside his 
beat.” Of the new Bini volumes i. and ii., by Mr. C. Fox Suara eiae, have 
dealt sn th the pen c rocks of Yorkshire. The rest of England is Sip son 
s the Lias, by Mr. H. “ Dy ard in vol. iii., while v lee iv. My 
Oolites) anc se v. (Middle and U ) Jerstood t 
a os 
The ‘Scottish t Club ene for January 1894 0 an 
_ article on ‘Climbi re ear Waseile — , y tlenied Collie, fone whieh it 
would appear dliat { the English Lake District Munising s, especially Scawfell pepe 
ord as d gero wei 
n 
lesson of the tragic death of Professor Marshall to felactaials this. The mo 
itself is safe enough and easy enough fo nakes the 
ascent ; but the would-be Alpine climber, who , delights i in scrambling ap the the pores 
ne ghylls’ and places which demand the use of rope and ice-axe, ha o be 
warned by the dictum of a celebrated climber of Alpin ute, as quo’ ry 
Mr. Collie. He says that ‘Climbing in the oe was fe: also it 
was usually easy and safe in the Alps, though sometimes —— but climbing as 
ised at Wastdale Head was both difficult verte 
