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S. H. SCUDDER, 



Lancashire. 



Two more English Carboniferous Insects. [Records and describes two portions 

 of insects' wings from the Lancashire coal-field. Both belong to the group 

 Protophasmida of Brongniart : one is referred to the genus Archaoptilus, 

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J. Shipman. Notts. 

 The Story of the Hemlock Stone. [Gives a resume of speculations as to the 

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 Keuper Basement Beds of the Trias at Stapleford Hill, about six miles west 

 of Nottingham. Conclusions formed that it was formed by weathering through 

 vast periods of time ; then buried by the drift in the Great Ice Age, which 

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W. Shone. Cheshire. 

 The Silting up of the Dee : its cause [Geological history of the Dee reviewed. 

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 and the width of the river decreasing rapidly within a few miles. The 

 narrowing of the river between Connah's Quay and Chester produces a violent 

 ' bore ' with each flow of the tide. This carries coarse sand up the river, 

 and the causeway at Chester, checking the 'bore,' causes the sediment to be 

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John Sim. Northumberland. 

 Objects of Interest in our [Northumbrian] Pit District. \_Anthracosia ovata 

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M. Simpson. Yorkshire. 

 The Fossils of the Yorkshire Lias described from Nature. With a carefully 

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1884, Whitby. [The first edition appeared in 1855. The present edition 

 reprints also the ' Section of the Yorkshire Lias ' given in the 4th edition of 

 the Guide to the Geology of the Yorkshire Coast in 1868. The Fossils are 

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("Theodore] Sington. Derbyshire. 

 Mineral Deposit, occurring on Windy Knoll, near Castleton. [Very brief 

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1885, xxiv, 53. 



H. B. Stocks. Yorkshire. 

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[Analysis of one from Sewerby, near Flamborough, compared with one from 

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C. Fox Strangways, C. Reid, and G. Barrow. Yorkshire. 

 The Geology of Eskdale, Eosedale, etc. (Memoir of the Geological Survey), 

 pp. 65, with index. [This memoir describes the area represented in sheet 96 

 N.E. Old Series ; sheet 43 New Series. The geology of this remarkable part 

 of the north-east of Yorkshire is minutely detailed. Nowhere can be seen so 

 plainly the effects of erosion in carving out the numerous valleys which radiate 

 from the table-land. The Lias, Lower and Middle Oolites with their divisions, 

 all of which are so well seen in these valleys, are described. Numerous tables 

 of sections and analyses of ores are given. A short chapter gives an account 

 of the Whinstone or Cleveland Dyke. The Physical Geography of the district 

 is explained, and a list of geological works referring to this part of Yorkshire 

 given.] 



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