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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



THE PAL^ONTOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 



On the last day of the old year we received the volume of 

 the Palaeontographical Society for 1908, which contains many 

 valuable monographs. Dr. A. Smith Woodward contributes 

 part IV. of the ' Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk,' and in- 

 cludes Elopopsis crassus from Barton-on-Humber, described 

 by Dr. Woodward in these pages in 1907. There is a further 

 instalment of the reproductions of Sowerby's figures of Inferior 

 Oolite Ammonites. Drs. Gertrude EUes and Ethel M. R. 

 Wood contribute part VII. of the Monograph of British 

 Graptolites. Mr. Philip Lake gives part III. of ' British Cam- 

 brian Trilobites.' Mr. Henry Woods contributes a further 

 instalment of his ' Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata/ in which 

 some Speeton Clay fossils are figured and described. These 

 monographs are indispensable to workers, are wonderfully 

 cheap, and we should like to support the appeal that is made 

 for further subscribers. The subscription is one guinea per 

 anijum, and should be sent to Dr. Smith Woodward, at the 

 British Museum (Natural History). 



THE SOUTH EASTERN NATURALIST. 



With the above title has been issued the ' Transactions 

 of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies for 1908,'* 

 under the editorship of Mr. J. W. Tutt. Besides detailed 

 reports on the various sections of the Union's work, it contains 

 the Presidential Address of Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., on 

 ' The Weald ; ' ' Gilbert White and Sussex,' by W. H. Muhens ; 

 * Spiders of the Hastings District/ by W. R. Butterfield and 

 W. H. Bennett ; ' Mediaeval Timber Houses of Kent and Sussex,' 

 by J. E. Ray; 'Hastings Castle,' by H. Sands; 'Notes on 

 Dewponds,' by E. A. Martin ; ' Some Local Marine Sponges.' 

 by E. Counold ; ' Birds exhibited at the Congress Museum,' 

 by N. F. Ticehurst, and ' The Pleistocene Vertebrates of South- 

 East England,' by W. J. Lewis Abbott. The volume is illus- 

 trated by a number of plates, and reflects the greatest credit 

 upon our friends in south-east England. 



* London: Elliot Stock. Ixxi + 121 pp. 2/6 net. 



1909 February i. 



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