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Notes and Comments. 
RESEARCH. 
As a research worker, Professor Kendall has covered a 
very wide field, and his reputation is of the very highest. 
In the field of glacial geology he ranked almost as a founder. 
He was elected a member of the Geological Society of London 
in 1889, and in 1895 that body awarded him the Lyell Geol- 
ogical Fund in encouragement of his early work. In 1909 he 
received from the Society the distinguished award of the 
Lyell Medal. He played a very important part in the develop- 
ment of the South Yorkshire coalfield, for in 1908 he was 
invited by the Geological Section of the Royal Commission 
on Coal Supplies to report upon the concealed coal measures 
in that part of the country. It may be said to be very largely 
due to that report that commercial operations, which have 
since transformed the character of the whole of South York- 
shire, were undertaken. 
CHESHIRE PEAT. 
At a recent meeting of the Liverpool Geological Society, 
Mr. W. G. Travis read a valuable paper ‘ On Peaty Bands 
in the Wallasey Sandhills/ He pointed out that ‘ the 
principal band described is exposed on the seaward face of 
the dunes which fringe the Wallasey shore, and with the 
exception of one considerable gap where the dunes are broken 
down is visible for a distance of 1 mile 700 yards. The 
thickness on the whole is from 6 to 9 inches. A detailed study 
of the plant remains of the bands has been made, which has 
revealed an abundant moss flora, including nine species of 
Hypnum, several of which have never been found in a living 
state in the Wirral peninsula. From the evidence of these 
plant remains, and more especially the characteristic as- 
semblage of mosses, in conjunction with the circumstances 
in which the remains are preserved, it is clear that these bands 
of peaty sand and silt are deposits which were accumulated 
in wet dune * slacks - such as occur in the flats or hollows 
among the sandhills on the Lancashire coast. They indicate 
the former existence of physical conditions in the Wirral dunes 
which do not now obtain. 
YORKSHIRE COALFIELDS. 
A coloured map of the Yorkshire Coalfields, described as 
‘ the only complete map,’ measuring 44 inches by 36 inches, 
has been issued by the Business Statistics Co., Baltic House, 
Cardiff. It is on the scale of one inch to the mile, and is 
coloured to show the Mineral Takings, the Areas, Colliery 
Companies, Position of Pits and Railways serving the Collier- 
ies. It covers the districts of Doncaster, Barnsley, Leeds, 
Wakefield, Pontefract, Sheffield, etc., and is sold at £3 3s., 
which seems sufficient. 
Naturalist 
