7 1 2 Mosaical and Mineral Geologies compared, 



constitution of each European basin, but dwells on certain 

 deposits, such as the crag; or on certain localities, as those of 

 London or Paris ; while the great inferior Sub-Apennineform-» 

 ation is too briefly adverted to. His lists of fossils have been 

 amended ; but it is to be regretted that he has admitted too 

 readily the authority {Ics determinations) of Marcel de Serres 

 on the tertiary fossils, and of M. Zieten on the fossils of lias 

 and lower oolites. That part which treats of the ancient rocks 

 is, defective. In closing his article on elevations of the globe 

 such as M. E. de Beaumont has imagined, he adds this curious 

 remark, that in England there have been three directions of 

 elevation, at three different epochs ; but these directions are 

 parallel, and run from east to west. These are, 1st, the 

 elevation of the beds in the Isle of Wight after the deposition 

 of the London clay * ; 2dly, the elevation of a part of the 

 greywacke of Devonshire and of the carboniferous rocks of 

 Mendip, and also of part of South Wales, which took place 

 before the deposition of the new red sandstone ; and, 3dly, 

 the elevation of the greywacke of the south of Ireland, which 

 was more ancient than the p^rpl^,tr3^sitk)n. sandstone (griii 

 pqurpre intermediaii^e). prjfnoa is ol batovsh ^I e^jwqrni dlliJ 



Various Individuals: Transactions of the Albany Listituie* 

 '^Tart I. Vol. I. 8vo. , 



* The Albany Institute is composed of twp societies, whiqh 

 are now united, " The Society for the Promotion of Useful 

 Arts in the State of New York, and the Albany Lyceum of 

 Natural History.'* The most important articles in the presenjt 

 volume are. Art. 2. On the Geographical Botany of the 

 Unhed States, by Lewis C. Beck, M.D. Art. 7. On the 

 Climate of the Valley of the Mississippi. Art. 11. A Topo- 

 graphical Sketch of the State of New York, designed chiefly 

 to show the general Elevations and Depressions of its Surface, 

 by Joseph Henry ; and Art. 1 4. Observations of the Coal 

 Formations in the State of New York, by Amos Eaton. 



Higgins, W. M., F. G. S. &c. : The Mosaical and Mineral 

 Geologies illustrated and compared. Svo, bound in cloth, 

 168 pages. 1832. Scoble, 110. Chancery Larie'.i^ ,'nofhi<i 



It is now 217 years since the doors of the inquisition closed 

 upon Galileo, and, if we may judge by the vials of theological 



,^.^ We confess ourselves a little surprised that M. Boue should find any 

 thing curious in a fact which has been so long known to every tyro in En- 

 glish geology, namely, that the elevation of the beds in the Isle of Wight 

 took place long after the elevation of the rocks of Devonshire and 

 South Wales, on which the red sandstone rests unconformably. The grey- 

 wacke rocks and coal strata in England have been subjected to numer- 

 ous elevations, operating in different directions, and at different periods^. 



