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GEOLOGY IN HULL. 
Transactions | of the | Hull Geological Society | for the 
Session 1893-4. | ——Volume I. | — | Hull: | Printed for the Society by 
F. Smith, Eaton Street, Lowgate. | Price One Shilling. [8vo., 25 pages 
and frontispiece rae 
same for 1894-95, Volume II. [8vo., 23 pages and frontispiece}. — 
si ame for 1895-96, Volume III. [S8vo., 27 pages, frontispiece, 
and 2 folding tables]. 
Of the activity of the Hull geologists, these three parts of 
transactions, with their record of successful and well-directed 
investigation of their immediate district, is ample proof, and we 
look forward with keen anticipation to seeing further instalments. 
Each of the parts has an excellent photograph for frontispiece, 
the first representing an ancient forest-bed in Chalk Lane, Hull, 
the second the gravels underlying boulder clay at Southfield, 
Hessle, and the third being that well-known object, St. Austin’s 
Stone. 
Richly-deserved prominence is given to the investigation, 
systematic and well-planned, of the boulders of the East Riding, 
for which purpose an East Riding Boulder Committee was 
formed by the Society. 
The numerous excursions of which reports are given show 
that every chance is taken of studying geology in the field, and 
abstracts are given of the various lectures and papers given at 
the evening meetings, and a bibliography of works relating to 
the geology of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire published 
in 1895, is included in the third volume. 
The fact that most of the papers are given ‘in abstract’ only 
leads us to the abstract remark that, as regards local societies, 
it would be of greater interest to give local original papers in 
full, and to make room for them by still more severely condens- 
ing (or omitting all but the title) of papers dealing with general 
problems or non-local geology. What concern, for instance, — 
has the Hull Society with Alpine glaciers or the geology of 
Central Africa, when space is urgently required for the full text _ : 
of a paper on some branch of East Riding geology. Wehave _ 
to congratulate the Society upon its work and its prosperity, 
and to wish it every success in the future. 
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BOOK NOTICE. 
We are indebted to Mr. Thomas Sheppard, vie eye Secretary © 
the Hull —— Club, for a paper by him on ‘The Hessle’ “Chialk 
Quarries runs to 8 pages of crown i and ali ete 1898 and 
ee imprint of William Andrews & Co., of Lon If a reprint, it 
: oats no} sed, 
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mark thereof. The chalk quarries “ie Ceates. and the contained — 
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