Abstract
SHROPSHIRE, in its combination of mountain and plain, in the varied flow and scenery of its river, for which the whole county serves as catchment basin, in the extent of its stratified rocks from pre-Camorian to Lias, in their yield of coal, building-stones, metals, and workable clays, lends itself admirably to treatment by a geographer who is also a geologist, and it is needless to say that Prof. Watts, whose geological studies of the county alone or in conjunction with Prof. Lapworth have been a guide to so many, avails himself thoroughly of the opportunity. The rich and beautiful forests, the meres, and the rocky uplands support a multiform assemblage of birds. The more important among these and other animals are noted, but it might have been mentioned that a complete series of the vertebrate fauna has been collected and placed on exhibition by Mr. H. E. Forrest in the Shrewsbury Museum. The diversified agriculture and the numerous industries down to the making of “churchwardens” are briefly correlated with rocks and soil.
Shropshire: The Geography of the County.
By Prof. W. W. Watts. Pp. x + 254. (Shrewsbury: Wilding and Son, Ltd., 1919.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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Shropshire: The Geography of the County . Nature 104, 331–332 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104331a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104331a0
