8 NES Ue bee Re ae ee 
eas Ee - Nagar 3 
eg SD ae ae ir ae Se de bee ee yn ee,” 
5. 4 
he ae ee eee ES 
258 : Various Notes. 
DESCRIPTION OF BOULDERS. 
No. 1. A pink granite (14 x9x 374 inches). The matrix of 
this specimen resembles to a remarkable degree that of shap 
granite, but lacks the necessary large felspar crystals which 
shap granite always contains. 
Nou Bi A highly crystalline rock (9 x 8 x 6 inches) difficult to 
describe. It is in all probability Scandinavian. 
The boulders on the hedge side (one of which measured 
pe dee Se A oo were principally clay-limestone and arenaceous 
in char 
gth pan "1868. 
NOTE—BOTANY. 
lants of ee West gc rents S. L. Petty, 24, Quee 
t, Ulverston, N. npr writes to us t he has been botanising = 
; ° 
ader, or, in fact : 
has Botaninn there, will communicate sither a few plants or a list of species 
seen ilverdal i 
any workers the limits of 
on n that portion of = pare rae of both counties; and Westmorland is out- 
side area of our be, pondent’s work. All such nae will be duly 
pone an A ohn —Eps. NA 
NOTE—GEOLOGY. 
Geology gralaee “i Grantham.—It has ie suggested to me that the 
paragraph at_ of my paper on ‘Geology South of Grantham,’ 
inni apres ., 
fissurin 
tenestane’ Pati to the south ‘of G a and west of a river Witham, 
would help us to picture the time when the limestone extended trom the 
tia shi to the stward, and no esca en 
onn 
parts of these ancient valleys. The paragra s perhaps to Be sweeping 
. hs marr seme? but with “this explanation I atts t tt will not be misunder- 
tood.—Henry Preston, Grantham, 23rd August 1898. 
rl 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Right gladly did we read in March H hy Ne of Botany’ that at last a 
new British Flora is in preparation by the Rev. E. F. , of Bourne- 
mou ch hands it is almost a foregone conclusion that the work 
will not only be done, but done well. of u e been reared on 
ne . 
er and Babington know how out of date both authorities are now; and, 
alas, how much we shall have to. forget when the new flora . in our ssrpe 
_ based on the London Catalogue. But as the difficulty has to be faced, 
— aah in Mr. Linton’s company than in that of ag Tndustrious comiblety 
aah gn too > often wit ith us, —S.L go me, 
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