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The following morning we sailed over to French Island with a 

 favourable breeze, but beyond observing evident traces of 

 Hesperidas in the Cladium, and capturing a female specimen of 

 X. Klugii, very little was done. 



Before leaving for Cowes, however, a Tiger Snake, whose 

 powers of elongating itself after death were immense, was 

 despatched. The wind having changed, and the tide being in 

 our favour, we had a quick run back. Next morning a return 

 was made for Melbourne, after spending a very enjoyable and 

 profitable outing. — A. H. Westley. 



REVIEW. 



Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens of the Rocks of 

 Victoria in the Industrial and Technological Museum, 

 Melbourne. Printed by permission of the Trustees. 1894. 

 Pp. 127. Price is. 

 The preface to this pamphlet states that the original catalogue, 

 which was compiled by Ulrich and issued in a separate form in 

 1875, has "to some extent been used as a text-book." The 

 present work is, however, practically a reprint of Ulrich's cat- 

 alogue, with a few additions and still fewer alterations. The 

 former work enumerated 577 examples, while the present one 

 contains 783, or an addition of 106 examples. An improvement 

 has been made in the arrangement, which permits new specimens 

 being added in their proper places, which was impossible accord- 

 ing to the old method, as the numbers were consecutive. One 

 group we find (No. 9) is missing. 



Ulrich's work has long been out of print, and is looked on as 

 a valuable possession by those few geologists who have treasured 

 up their copies. It was consequently with great hopes that we 

 looked forward to the publication of the present work, but these 

 hopes have been doomed to the bitterest disappointment. When 

 Ulrich's catalogue was written it was up to date in its contents, 

 and was written by one intimately acquainted with the geology 

 and petrology of the colony. Since the date of the publication 

 of his work twenty years have elapsed, and the classification which 

 Ulrich employed was then already eight years old, for Zirkel's 

 " Lehrbuch " appeared in 1866. During these twenty years 

 a new science has grown up, and yet we find that the classifica- 

 tion of the old catalogue is followed in all its details. During 

 these twenty years some slight progress has been made in the 

 unravelling of the geology of Victoria and of the neighbouring 

 colonies, yet we find that Ulrich's descriptions of the rock 

 formations have been copied almost unchanged, and the altera- 

 tions can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The preface 

 tells us that the catalogue " can be used with great advantage in 

 the study of the rock formation of Victoria and adjoining 



