Field Note-book of Geological Illustrations

Abstract

THE idea of this book is a very happy one. Miss Sharpe has collected a number of photographs illustrating geological features, mainly from places in the British Isles, and Messrs. Flatters and Garnett are prepared to supply lantern-slides of most of them at is. each, or on hire at is. 3d. a dozen. Even as a supplement to the fine series issued by the British Association, this selection is very welcome, and the book itself, at its modest price, is distinctly suggestive to the teacher. The illustrations, even when most effective, are rarely chosen from hackneyed subjects. We can scarcely do better than Stare Cove, Lulworth, or the Giant's Causeway, which naturally appear; but we can now avail ourselves of the limestone pinnacle of Pickering Tor, of eight views of the River Artro, near Harlech, from its source among the boulders to the sea, and of the Severn Valley in the Triassic plain of Worcestershire. Broad landscapes like the last have 100 often been neglected. Miss Sharpe gives us also the Silurian escarpments near Malvern, the rounded forms of the Longmynd, and the ice-worn gneissic floor of Sutherland. Details like an erratic near Harlech and pot-holes on the Gelt have also obvious uses. The subject may easily be extended into future volumes, if the enterprise meets with the success that it deserves.

Field Note-book of Geological Illustrations.

Arranged by Hilda D. Sharpe.; containing 86 photographs and maps. Pp. 51. (Manchester: Flatters and Garnett, Ltd., n.d.) Price 3s. net.