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summaries of their contents ; and ' A Bibliography of Norfolk 

 Glaciolog"}' ' (1897), which contained nearly 500 references, with 

 abstracts. 



Of great archceological interest is ' The Bibliography of 

 Stonehenge and Avebury,' published in 1901. This contains 

 particulars of 947 papers and books, some dating as far back as 

 B.C. 330! 



Another of his labours, which has perhaps been as helpful 

 as any, is his ' Geology of the Counties of England and 

 Wales.' At first this was a series of articles dealing with the 

 geology of the respective counties, appearing in Kelly's 

 County Directories. In each volume Mr. Harrison gave a 

 concise account of the geology of the county, and also refer- 

 ences to the principal papers and books referring thereto. 

 These were reprinted in one volume by the publishers, and 

 though the work has long since been out of print, it was never 

 re-issued apart from the Directories, for possibly obvious reasons. 

 During the last five years of his life a considerable time was 

 occupied in revising these county memoirs for new editions of 

 the Directories. Fortunately this work was just completed ; 

 and only on the evening before he died he was occupied in 

 making a few slight corrections to a complete proof copy for 

 his son,* 



He also wrote and edited numerous well-known text-books 

 dealing with Geology, Physiography, Metallurgy, Photog-raphy, 

 Domestic Economy, Agriculture, Mechanics, Chemistry, and 

 Magnetism and Electricity. His smaller papers also refer to a 

 variety of subjects, though they principally relate to the geology 

 and palaeontology of the Midlands. His first paper, written in 

 1873, was 'On the Discovery of Leaden Coffins in Leicester,' 

 and his last, published in 1907, referred to ' Coal beneath the 

 Old Library, Birmingham/ 



He was an ardent supporter of the Land-Ice Theory, taking 

 a keen interest in the subject in the early days of the Glacialists' 

 Association, when conflicts between 'glacialists' and 'sub- 

 mergers ' were frequent. For some years he was editor of the 

 ' Midland Naturalist.' 



* Ten proof copies of the complete work, broug-ht up to da te, were left by 

 the author at the time of his death, tog^ether with a memorandum as to how 

 they were to be disposed of, viz. : — The Geological Societ^^ London ; the 

 Geological Survey Office ; the Natural History Museum, South Kensington ; 

 the Geolog-ists' Association ; the Birming-ham University Library ; the Old 

 Library, Birmingham ; the Reference Library, Birmingham ; W. Jerome 

 Harrison, J. A. Harrison, and T. Sheppard. These copies are being- finally- 

 corrected by Mr. J. A. Harrison. 



Naturalist, 



