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Reviews and Book Notices. 



work during the past three sessions, with abstracts of papers read, etc. 

 Several of these have been printed to greater length elsewhere ; some are 

 now published for the first time, but all alike will be of interest to the mem- 

 bers of the Leeds Society. Following these abstracts are usually suitable 

 ' references,' though one or two of these {e.g., ' A Strachan, Q.J.G.S.' ; 

 ' Nordenskiold. — ' Geol. Mag.', and 'Gregory — "Nature"') seem rather 

 vague. We cannot enumerate all the interesting notes here, but we were 

 particvilarly glad to find a good summary of Prof. Kendall's ' Geological 

 History of the North Sea Basin,' ' The Clevelands and North-East York- 

 shire — The Influence of Soils on Vegetation,' and ' A Description of Six 

 Sections in the Lower Coal Measures of Leeds,' by B. Holgate. This last 

 is illustrated by six excellent plates from photographs by the President, 

 Mr. F. W. Branson, who has also paid for the plates. There is an excellent 

 record of the work accomplished on the iVssociation's Excursions, which 

 is not (though should be) signed ; presumably it is the work of the Hon. 

 Editor and Secretary, Mr. E. Hawkesworth, Another welcome feature 

 is the ' Classified Index of the Transactions, Vols. I. — ^XIV.' This will 

 be very useful, particularly to those who possess complete sets of the 

 Transactions. 



We don't know that anyone will be able to find much fault with the 

 Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society for 1908. It is a more 

 than usually substantial volume ; is exceptionally well illustrated ; the 

 date of publication is printed on the wrapper ; and the dates the various 

 papers were read and MSS. received, are given at the head of each. Prof. 

 Kendal gives suitable obituary notices of the late H. Clifton Sorby and 

 Joseph Lomas, the former of which is illustrated by photos and photo- 

 micrographs of Sorby' s first slides ; two of these we are kindly permitted 

 to reproduce. Prof. Mc Kenny Hughes contributes the sixth instalment 

 of his paper on ' Ingleborough ' ; Mr. H. Culpin follows with a paper on ' The 



Fossils in the Yorkshire Coal Measures above the Barnsle}^ Seam ' ; some 

 of his new finds being described by Dr. Wheelton Hind. One is called 

 Aviculopecten culpini, in honour of its discoverer. Other papers bearing 

 upon Carboniferous Geology are contributed by Messrs. H. St. John 

 Durnford, A. Wilmore, A. R. Dwerryhouse, Cosmo Johns and Walter 

 Rowley. Mr. F. Elgee writes on ' The Glaciation of North Cleveland,' 

 and Mr. A. Gilligan on ' Some Effects of the Storm of June 3rd, igo8.' 

 The only thing we cannot quite understand in the whole volume is how 



Naturaiist, 



