1908. Notes. \ 83 



(2) a shelf cut in the face of the Old Red Sandstone cliffs of Kuockaveli.>h 

 Head. The level of this ledge is from 10-15 f^^t above the present short 

 platform, and corresponds with that of the base of the inland cliff. At 

 Credau Head there is no trace of a similar ledge, but this may be ac- 

 counted for by the fact that the rocks are soft and have yielded readily 

 to the weather. Inland, however, up the Credan valley, relics of an old 

 sea-cliif still persist. A close correspondence obtains both as regards 

 buried rock-cliffs and also wave-cut rock-platforms between this and the 

 various sections along our south coast which have been examined and 

 described by Messrs. Wright and Muff. A submerged forest is observable 

 at low spring-tides, which records a former downward and a more recent 

 upward movement of our coastline. About 30 stools were counted, the 

 diameter of the trunks being in most cases i-i^ feet. In a second article 

 ( . c, Dec, 1907), it is stated that between Tramore and Dunmore East, 

 the materials of the drift are largely derived from the old Red Sand- 

 stone, and there is an absence of granite, gneiss, and metamorphic rocks, 

 which form such an important part of the drift at Passage. 



The Soil Geology of Ireland. 



Accompanying the volume recently reviewed in our pages (vol. xvi., 

 p. 340) is a map showing the surface geology of the countrj% prepared 

 under the direction of Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S. : scale 10 miles to an 

 inch. 



REVIEWS. 



BRITISH AND IRISH MARINE WORMS. 



A Monograph of the British Annelids. By W, C. McInTOSH, 

 M.D., F.R.S. , &c. Vol. II., Part i. 1908. 4to. Pp. 1-232. Plates 

 XIvIII. — L. coloured, and LVII. — LXX. uncoloured. Issued by the 

 Ray Society to subscribers for the year 1907. London, 1908. 



The third part of Professor Mcintosh's sumptuous Monograph of the 

 British Annelids has just been issued by the Ray Societ}-. The first part, 

 issued in 1873-4, dealt with the Nemertine worms, which are no longer 

 included among the Annelids. Part 2, published in 1900, included the 

 Families Amphiuomidse, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae, and 

 Sigalionidae. It was briefly reviewed in the Irish Naturalist^ Vol. ix., 

 p. 181. The volume just issued deals with the Families Nephthydidae, 

 Phyllodocidse, Hesionidse, and Syllidae. It is illustrated by 8 beautiful 

 coloured, and 14 uncoloured plates. The completion of this elaborate 



