48 REVIEWS8—GEOLOGICAL RECORD, ETC. 
The Geological Record for 1876. Edited by W. Wurraxer, B.A., F.G.S. 
Published by Taylor and Francis. Price to subscribers, 10s. 6d. 
Tuts is the third volume of this most useful and, to every geological 
worker, indispensable book. It contains 415 closely printed pages, 
embracing not only the title, but a short abstract of every paper or book 
bearing upon the science of geology which was published during the 
year 1876, either in the British Isles or abroad, all properly classified, 
together with lists of the new fossils described, &c. Some idea of the 
immense amount of labour involved may be had from the fact that the 
total number of abstracts amounts to nearly 2,400. The British Associa- 
tion has recognised the need for and value of this publication by making 
an annual grant of £100 towards its cost, and the extremely low price at 
which it is published should enable every student to obtain it as a work 
of reference. 
Nowadays it is absolutely necessary to know what other workers 
have done or are doing in the field of research in which we ourselves are 
engaged. For want of this knowledge countless blunders have been 
committed in the past, every science has been loaded with unnecessary 
synonyms, and much duplicate work has been done. 
Mr. Whitaker has long been known as an indefatigable worker both 
in the library and in the field; but in the preparation of the Geological 
Record he has been ably aided by several of his colleagues on the 
Geological Survey and by others. Among these we may mention Messrs. 
Topley, Dalton, Lebour, Drew, Etheridge, jun., Tawney, H. B. 
Woodward, &c., and Profs. Bonney, Rudler, Miall, and Nicholson. 
One of the great difficulties in connection with the work is the fact 
that many authors and societies do not punctually send copies of their 
papers, transactions, &c., to the editor, (at the Geological Museum, 
Jermyn Street, S.W.,) or to the Library of the Geological Society, at 
Burlington House, Piccadilly, where they might be consulted. 
W. J. Be 
The Small Heath Literary Magazine. No. 3. January, 1879. Price 1s. 
Birmingham : Davis Bros. 
Tris excellent magazine, the papers in which are contributed solely by 
members of the Small Heath Literary and Scientific Society, is a most 
praiseworthy publication, and we warmly congratulate the editors on 
being able to issue such an interesting and highly creditable serial. 
Although the subject-matter of the papers is mainly of a non-scientific 
character, we do not think it is out of place to record in these pages our 
warm appreciation of the good work one of the societies in the ‘* Midland 
Union” is doing by giving publicity to the literary productions of its 
members. We sincerely hope it may obtain all the success it deserves. 
Errata.—NorrinGHAMsHIRE ConcHoLoey, &¢c.—Vol. I., page 309, lines 
1 and 14, for Testacella Maugei read T. haliotidea ; on page 308, line 5, 
Notts Ferns, for Polystichum angulare read P. aculeatum. The former is 
also foundin the county. 
