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be assigned wholly to the operation of inorganic causes or not, is a 

 question ivhich does not in the meamvhile admit of solution ! " 



We embrace the present opportunity to mention a few points connected 

 with the Harris graphic granite. Fig. i, pi. i. , represents a portion of 

 the specimen presented to us by the late Prof. R. Harkness, showing 

 lamellae of quartz and feldspar (both represented vertically); also the 

 striping or ' ' striation" (characteristic of plagioclases) intersecting the 

 feldspar layers nearly at a right angle, and taken by Dr. Carpenter for 

 " tubular structure." Fig. 3, pi. ix., represents a small portion, 

 slightly under the natural size, of a beautiful and interesting specimen (5 

 inches by 2 inches) which has been kindly placed, with others, in our 

 hands by Dr. Heddle, the mineralogist of Scotland. The inter- 

 lamellation of the quartz (brown in the figure) and the feldspar purple is 

 both "strictly limited" and of "definite form." The feldspar, which 

 from its silvery appearance, seems to be of the variety called "moon- 

 stone," is obliquely intersected by what appear to be laminse of a triclinic 

 feldspar, inasmuch as they are crossed with striae ; similar laminae are 

 seen in the specimens of orthoclase represented in fig. 4, pi. i. Our 

 figure of Dr. Heddle's affords but a poor idea of its beauty and remarka- 

 ble structural character. (King and Rowney. An old chapter of the 

 Geol. Rec. pp. xli, xlii, 1881.) 



Perry, J. B. A Review of Sir Charles Lyell's Student's 

 Elements of Geology. Bibliotheca Sacra, July, 1872. 



Notices unfavourably Sir Charles's acceptance of " Eozoon." (King 

 and Rowney. An old chapter of the Geol. Rec, p. xxix, 1881.) 



Phillips (Prof.), J. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the 

 Thames. 187 1. 



" Only in another part of the world among strata of gneiss as old, if 

 not older, than these of Malvern, has one solitary organic body been 

 found — Eozoon Canadense. This foraminifer or sponge has not obtained 

 its certificate, 'proved by the ends of being, to have been,' without pro- 

 test," p. 61. (King and Rowney. An old chapter of the Geol. Rec, pp. 

 xxvi, xxvii, 1881.) 



ScHULTZE (Prof.), M. Eozoon Canadense. Sitzungs, der niederr- 

 heinischen Gesell. fur Natur-iind Heilkunde, July 7, 1873. 



A translation is published in the ' ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 4, vol. xiii, pp. 324, 325. 



Prof. Schultze, having examined specimens of the presumed fossil, 

 avers " there can be no serious doubt as to the foraminiferous nature of 

 Eozoon Canadense.'" (King and Rowney. An old chapter of the Geol. 

 Rec, p. xxix, 1881.) 



Six, a. Soc. Geol. du Nord. Annales, tome vi, 1878-79. 1879. 

 Eozoon. 



