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seam is reduced in thickness as it nears the split seems to 
suggest a sagging or pulling out motion. The word ‘peaty’ 
is used in this paragraph to denote the matrix of the cannel 
coal before consolidation, and it is not implied that the cannel 
coal grew on the spot in the form of peat. 
A further point of interest at the southern end of the 
exposure is a carbonaceous layer, starting some feet above the 
coal, cutting across the bedding of the grey shale, and des- 
cending on to the coal, eventually cutting the latter out 
altogether. This layer is about 3 ins. thick, and above it is 
boulder clay. On closer investigation this carbonaceous 
layer consists of powdered coal, shale and clay mixed. It 
probably marks out a pre-glacial land surface, and is itself 
the smeared -out remains of the coal taken from the part of 
the seam where the boulder clay descends on to the green 
sandy shale. Further excavation might yield decisive evi- 
dence. 
In the widening of the road, this split which is an exposure 
lying at the surface, will be entirely dug out, and no evidence 
will be left. The members of the Geological Section of the 
Bradford Scientific Association are, however, watching it 
with great interest, and are keeping records. 
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We are glad to find that the members of the British Association can 
now have their Annual Reports bound in cloth, if applied for, on payment 
of 2/-. 
The Royal Society has awarded its Royal Medal to Dr. F. F. Blackman 
for his researches on the gaseous exchange in plants and on the operation 
of limiting factors. 
Messrs. Wheldon & Wesley, of 38 Great Queen Street, W.C.2., have 
issued Part 2 of their excellent Botanical Catalogue, which contains 
something like 650 entries. 
British Limnobiidae : Some Records and Corrections/ by F. W. 
Edwards, appears in The Transactions of the Entomological Society of 
London, recently issued. 
A park, museum and art gallery at Accrington, the gift of the late 
Annie Haworth and of the late William H. Haworth, costing ^50,000, 
were recently opened by the mayor. 
Mr. W. Whitaker’s seventeenth Presidential Address, this time to 
the Geologists’ Association, is entitled ‘ Geologists and the Geologists’ 
Association, ’ and appears in the Association’s Proceedings recently issued . 
The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 
just published, contains particulars of a bronze-age Cist recently found 
on the Hexham Golf Course, and a paper on Warden Hill Camp and ‘ The 
Castles ’ in Weardale. 
At a recent meeting of the Geological Society of London, Prof. E. J. 
Garwood exhibited the earliest recorded [? freshwater] Gasteropod ( Vivi - 
parus [. PaluMna ]) from the local base of the Carboniferous rocks, near 
Horton -in -Ribblesdale ( Y orkshire ) j 
Volume XXI. of the Transactions of the Cumberland, etc., Archceo- 
logical Society contains ‘ Explorations in the Roman Fort at Ambleside,’ 
by R. G. Collingwood ; ‘ Cumberland Ports and Shipping in the Reign 
of Elizabeth,’, by P. H. Fox ; ‘ Fountains Abbey and Cumberland,’ by 
W. P. Haskett-Smith ; ‘ A Roman Well at Carlisle,’ by H. Redfern ; and 
numerous other contributions. 
Naturalist 
