420 NATURAL SCIENCE. June, 



The Strata of the Earth. 



CONGRES GeOLOGIQUE INTERNATIONAL. 6e SESSION, ZURICH, 1894. ChRONO- 



GRAPHE Geologique. 12 grands tableaux en couleurs (gamme internationale). 

 Texte explicaiif suivi d'un repertoire stratigraphique polyglotte par E. Renevier 

 ... . 8vo. Lausanne (Bridal & Cie). Mars, 1897. Compte Rendu du Congres, 

 pp. 523-695. Issued separately at 10 fr., or the tables without the text at 6 fr. 



This chart of the sedimentary formations was first published by 

 Professor Renevier in 1873 and 1874 in the Bulletin de la Societe 

 Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, volume xii., and consisted of nine tables. 

 It is now enlarged to twelve tables, and published as a part of the 

 Report of the Sixth International Geological Congress. The tables 

 give a bird's-eye view of the homotaxy of the formations in different 

 countries, and one can see at a glance the general correspondence of 

 beds of similar age in different localities. The text explains the tables, 

 and is followed by an extremely valuable " Repertoire Stratigraphique," 

 which is in reality an alphabetical list of the names given to general 

 or to local deposits in all parts of the world, followed in most cases by 

 the authority for the name, and the date when it was founded. This 

 alphabetical list will, we venture to think, be as indispensable to the 

 geologists as de Margerie's Bibliography, noticed in our last number; 

 and the veteran Swiss Professor will have the satisfaction of knowing 

 that he has helped the internationality of geology to a very con- 

 siderable extent by his indefatigable labours. 



The Glastonbury Lake-village. 



In 1893 (November) we referred to the Lake Dwellings discovered 

 by Mr. BuUeid at Glastonbury, quoting Prof. Boyd Dawkin's address 

 to the British Association. The excavations have been systematically 

 carried out so far as the funds available have permitted, Mr. Edward 

 Bath, the owner of the five acres, having generously given the site 

 over for systematic exploration. An interesting and well-illustrated 

 pamphlet, recently published at one shilling, gives an account of the 

 work up to the end of 1896, and can be obtained of Messrs. Barnicott 

 and Pearce, Fore Street, Taunton, or Mr. E. V. P. Barker, Glaston- 

 bury, the treasurer of the Excavation Fund, who will also be glad to 

 receive any contributions towards the further exploration of this 

 early British Settlement. 



Scraps from Serials. 



The Bucharest Anuani al Biuroiilui Geologicu has changed its title with 

 the publication of the volume for 1894, which is just to our hands. It 

 now reads Anuayulti Musenlici de Geologia si de Paleontologia. At the same 

 time there were published four sheets of the Geological Map of 

 Roumania. This Anuavulu contains descriptions of fossil Camel 

 and Dinothere found in the district, and of some rock-specimens 

 from the Carpathians, etc. All praise is due to Gregoriu Stefanescu 

 for his energy and perseverance in keeping science in evidence in 

 Roumania. 



Another of Mr. F. Enock's delightful and well-illustrated articles 

 appears in Knowledge for May. It is called "The Insects of a London 

 back-garden," and the first instalment deals with the willow saw-fiy, 

 NemaUis gallicola, and its parasites. The same number contains 

 articles on the progress of biology and geology during the Queen's 

 reign, by R. Lydekker and Grenville Cole respectively. Mr. T. A. 

 G. Strickland's photographs of animals in the Zoological Gardens are 

 no doubt good enough, but the reproductions of them are excru- 



