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there for nearly twenty years." This passage is carefully led up to ; but 

 we can find no trace of the whole fifteen lines in the original. Consider- 

 ing the scrupulous detail of her work and the magnitude of the issues, 

 Mrs. Ogilvie-Gordou's papers may fairly have required more ample 

 notice ; but wh}' was this not obtainable in a translator's footnote .'' Why, 

 again — where von Zittel does not make the observation — is the mind of 

 Mojsisovics "biassed" (p. 489), and the work of Rothpletz "excellently" 

 carried out (p. 493)? There is none of this harping on the "Munich 

 School of Geology " in the masterly review as written by von Zittel. 



We regret, also, that the five names connected with the Indian Survey, 

 given by the author on his p. 648 as workers in the Himalayan Trias, 

 should be omitted from the English translation, when space has been 

 found for additional comments in this section. 



One of the few defects of the original work is the occasional translation 

 of the titles of books and memoirs into German, whereby it is sometimes 

 difficult to trace the work quoted when one looks for it in a catalogue 

 under the author's name. But the retranslation of these titles into 

 English in the present book should have been done with the aid of a 

 librarj^'-catalogue. Lyell's " Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of 

 Man" becomes thus referred to as "On the Age of the Human Race" 

 (p- 195)' O^ the same page, the fourth book {Buck) of certain editions 

 of Lyell's "Principles," too obscurely referred to by von Zittel, is trans- 

 lated as "fourth volume," which is puzzling to possessors of the three- 

 volume, one-volume, or two-volume editions. The bibliography of this 

 memorable work, however, is a continual puzzle to those who have to 

 quote from it. 



And now, with this criticism of details, it is time to thank Mrs. Ogilvie- 

 Gordon for the considerable pains taken by her in presenting us with so 

 valuable a work of reference. Hundreds of readers who would never 

 have met with the German original will now have before them a truly 

 detailed history of geolog}-. The scope of the science is so wide that a 

 single chapter will appeal to one worker, another chapter to a second ; 

 while the reader whose interest lies in the general philosophic outcome 

 of the researches described, will find in the Introduction of 150 pages a 

 record of some of the most stirring episodes of human intellectual 

 progress. 



GrenviIvX.^ a. J. Coi,E. 



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