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from the area of land which furnished the supply of boulders, 

 g-ravel, sand, and clay, or, in other words, the Lake District or 

 Scotland.' Professor Dawkins then cited some half-dozen 

 records of mammoth teeth, etc., as 'the only other cases of 

 the discovery of fossil mammalia in the g^lacial deposits of 

 Britain ' known to him. Surely there is some error here, or else 

 the Professor has taken but little trouble to ascertain what 

 records there are. Yorkshire alone could supply him with 

 dozens of instances, particulars of many of which will be found 

 in ' The Naturalist,' the 'Proceeding's of the Yorkshire Geological 

 Society,' and other similar publications. 



GEOLOGY AND SCENERY. 



Straits have I seen that cover now 

 What erst was solid earth ; have trodden land 

 Where once was sea ; and gathered inland tar 

 Dry ocean shells. 



A third and cheap edition of Lord Avebury's now well-known 

 ' Scener}'- of England and the Causes to which it is due ' has just 



Section of Morainic Mass in Borrowdale. 



been issued by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. This will enable all 

 who have not already done so to place this valuable work on 

 their shelves. The present edition is in more handy form for 

 taking on a journey, and appears to contain all the illustrations, 



iqo4 November i. 



