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NOTE on TIDAL PHENOMENA. 



Three Tides in Twenty-four Hours.— As earthquakes are the order 

 of the day in the West Indies, the following- note of my father's, Edward 

 Peacock, F.S.A., of Wickentree House, Kirton-Lindsey, may not be without 

 some little interest to geologists : — ' My father (Edward Shaw Peacock, of 

 Bottesford Moors, Brigg-), when he was a young man (probably about 1815, 

 but I am not certain of the year), knew old Abraham Egar, who was super- 

 intendent at the dough heads of the Double Rivers at Keadby, in Athorpe 

 parish. One day he visited Keadby, and in conversation with him the old 

 man said, ' There has been an earthquake somewhere ! Can you tell me 

 where?' My father said he had not heard of one. 4 I am sure there has," 

 the old man answered, ' for there were three tides came up the Trent a few 

 days since, but the extra tide was only a little one.' He then went on to 

 say that he was only a lad helping his father, who held the same post as he 

 then did in 1755, when the great earthquake at Lisbon took place, and then 

 a third tide, a very large one, rushed up the Trent. My father saw in the 

 newspapers some time afterwards that there had been an earthquake, but 

 not a severe one, somewhere in Spain or Portugal, corresponding with the 

 time Abraham Egar indicated.' As our tides come to the Humber from 

 the north these earthquake waves must have travelled round the British 

 Islands before it could run down the North Sea. — E. Adrian Woodruffe- 

 Peacock, Cadney, Brigg, 16th May 1902. 



Transactions | of the I Hull Scientific and | Field Naturalists' Club 

 I for the Year 1901. | Vol. I. No. IV. | (With Title Page, Index, 

 &c.) | Edited by Thomas Sheppard, F.Q.S. | — | Price Five 

 Shillings Net. | | (Free to Members.) | Sold by | A. Brown & Sons, 

 Ltd., Savile St. & King- Edward St., Hull. | — | December, 1901. 

 [8vo. , paper covers, pp. 157-252, and plates 12-32.] 



The bulk of this interesting part is devoted to an excellent paper by 

 Messrs. F. W. Mills and R. H. Philip on ' The Diatomacese of the HullfDistrict/ 

 in which no less than about 600 species and varieties are enumerated, with 

 localities, including all the forms recorded in the classical lists of George 

 Norman of 1859 and 1865. The introductory remarks to the paper are of 

 great interest, and the paper is exceedingly well illustrated on 16 plates 

 with 588 figures from drawings by Mr. Mills. The Rev. E. Maule Cole 

 follows with a paper on 'Water-Spouts on the Yorkshire Wolds,' illustrated 

 hy 3 plates and a text-illustration. Next comes one of those most interest- 

 ing articles on 'By-gone Hull Naturalists' written by the Editor, his subject 

 being Adrian Hardy Haworth, of whom a portrait and autograph are given. 

 An unsigned article follows, in which Mr. Tom Petch very thoughtfully dis- 

 cusses the East Riding distribution of the Sea Lavender (Statice limonium), 

 and by the same writer is a paper on ' Paladestrina jenkinsi near Hull.' The 

 next important article is Messrs. T. Stainforth and H. E. Johnson's 'Second 

 List of Coleoptera occurring near Hull.' Mr. C. Crossland next records 

 with figures, 'Mollisia cinerascens Rehm. at B rough,' a new record for 

 Britain ; and the Secretary's Report on the Progress made by the Club 

 during 1900-1901 winds up the part. 



Once more the Hull Naturalists are to be congratulated on their 

 enthusiasm, their energy, and their public spirit, and above all upon the 

 scientific value of the papers they publish and the care with which they 

 avoid publishing popular and chatty articles of but ephemeral value and 

 articles outside their geographical area, and we trust that all who wish 

 them well will express their sympathy in terms of the pocket, and purchase 

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