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processes were watched, and the crushing of the granite by 
machinery inspected. After describing the Syenite, Mr. 
Paul gave the order to re-embark, and the road was resumed. 
Passing through Quorndon and Loughborough, the Forest 
Gate Beds were reached, and here a portion of the party 
left the vehicles to walk over the section of the rocks, a 
distance of four miles, showing the entire series. At the 
Forest Bock Inn the party was once more completed, the 
walking section having passed through Long Cliff, over Ives 
Head, and by the Monastery. 
From the Forest Bock Inn the drive was continued via 
Markfield to Newtown Linford. After tea some of the mem¬ 
bers walked in Bradgate Park, while others proceeded to 
Leicester to catch an early train. The driving distance 
accomplished by the geological party was close on thirty 
miles, through country interesting both on account of its 
scenery and its geological features. The walk from the Long 
Cliff Hotel to the Forest Bock Inn, included the Forest 
Gate Beds proper, the Coarse Grits and Banded Slates of 
Nanpantam and Long Cliff, the Banded Grits of Ives Head, 
the Blackbrook series, the Quartzose Bocks of Oaks Church, 
the Breccia and Ashes of the Hanging Stones, the Great 
and Bounded Agglomerate, the Porpliyritic Breccia, the 
Great Breccia Bed and the Indurated Slates of High Towers, 
and the Porpliyritic Bock of Peldar Tor, and on to the fault 
of Ashby Coalfield with the Keuper Beds atop. 
At the close of the tea, a very hearty vote of thanks was 
accorded to the President (Mr. Councillor Mott) for the 
excellent arrangements of the day ; and, on the part of the 
geologists, to Mr. J. D. Paul for his leadership, proposed by 
Hr. Deane and seconded by the Bev. Mr. Mello. 
Visitors were supplied with maps of Charnwood Forest, 
of Leicester, and geological maps and sections for the geological 
party, all of which added much to the convenience, interest, 
and instruction of the excursions. 
We have received Part XIII. of “ The British Moss Flora,” by B. 
Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S. This forms the first part of Section 6 of 
this truly beautiful and valuable work. In this the various genera 
and species belonging to the families Splachnacese. QEdipodiaceee, 
Funariaceae, and part of Bryacese, are figured and described in the 
able and graphic style of its talented author. It contains 6 plates, 
illustrating 23 species, (Edipodium Griffithii occupying a full page 
plate, which is a work of high artistic merit. The price of this part 
is 6s. ; the subscription for the Section, which will comprise Parts 
XIII. and XIV., 10s. 6d. In the next Part, XIV., the family Bryaceso 
will be continued, and, as this will contain descriptions and illustra¬ 
tions of the difficult genus Bryum, it will be of great value to all work¬ 
ing bryologists. The work may be obtained of the author, 303, 
Clapliam Road, London. 
