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ing parts : — W. K. Spencer's fourth part of the ' Cretaceous 

 Echinodermata ' (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea) , a part con- 

 taining a key-table to the marginal plates of Asteroidea, which 

 should prove of great value to zonal workers ; as the numerous 

 and common ossicles found in the Chalk can now be identified 

 with ease and certainty ; R. H. Traquair's third part of the 

 ' Carboniferous Ganoids ' ; Smith Woodward's third part of 

 the ' English Chalk Fishes ' ; Henry Wood's continuation of 

 the ' Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata ' ; part six of the ' British 

 ijraptolites,' by the Misses Elles and Wood ; Philip Lake's 

 second part of ' British Cambrian Trilobites ' ; and title-pages, 

 indices, and prefaces, to Buckman's ' Inferior Oolite Ammo- 

 nites,' Blake's ' Fauna of the Cornbrash,' Whidborne's ' Devo- 

 nian Fauna,' and Miall's ' Sirenoid Ganoids.' 



THE CHALK OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



Volume XX, part 4 of the ' Proceedings of the Geologists* 

 Association ' (London) is entirely devoted to Dr. Rowe and Mr. 

 Sherborn's Report on the White Chalk of the Isle of Wight. 

 As usual, the work is divided in that Dr. Rowe writes the text, 

 and Mr. Sherborn provides the maps and sundry notes. The 

 paper is illustrated by sixteen collotype plates of scenery, 

 taken by Dr. H. E. Arm_strong, many having explanatory key- 

 plates, and by a series of maps on the scale of six inches to the 

 mile for all but the central mass of the island, which is mapped 

 on the two-inch scale. The paper provides the usual wealth 

 of detail, and we can only suppose it will be found as correct 

 and useful as the earlier papers of this series have proved to be. 

 With this fifth Report, which concludes the coast series (Norfolk 

 being in the excellent hands of Mr. Brydone), Mr. Sherborn 

 provides an index to the whole series, from which it is possible 

 to trace the histor}^ of a species, or a zone, or any matter for 

 which one is looking. We offer our congratulations to the 

 authors and to the Geologists' Association, which has ever}/ 

 reason to be proud that these papers have been issued in their 

 pages. 



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In volume 15, part 27, the [Publications of the Thoresby 



Society recently issued, are ' Notes on Cressets,' by Dr. J. H. Whit-* 

 ham ; a local find of over 7,000 Roman coins ; this occurred at Stanley, 

 near Wakefield, in October, 1905, and many of the coins are figured by the 

 author, Aquila Dodgson ; and ' Discovery of Ancient Foundations and 

 Human remains at Temple Newsam,' by W. Braithwaite. There are also 

 other papers of interest. 



1908 ^larch I. ; 



