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Beds” (continued in the next number), by Mr. Whitaker ; and (38) 
“Qn some new Terebratulidz from Upware,” by Mr. J. F. Walker. 
The first paper in the November number is by Mr. Ruskin ; it 
is a continuation of the one in the August number, “On Brecciated 
Formations.” Like all, or nearly all, Mr. Ruskin’s geological papers, 
it is a burlesque of a scientific essay. For instance, “1 suspect that 
many so-called ‘conglomerates’ are not conglomerates at all, but 
concretionary formations.” Mr. Ruskin gives an example, namely, 
“yed, rounded, flint ‘ pebbles,’ much divided by interior cracks, en- 
closed by a finely crystallized quartz,” and he regards the “ pebbles” 
as “secretions—the spots on a colossal bloodstone.” Mr. Guppy has 
a paper on West Indian Geology, to the conclusions in which we 
should think other investigators will not subscribe. Dr. Von Koenen 
gives a valuable paper on the Belgian Tertiaries, in which he men- 
tions that M. Cornet has discovered his error respecting the “ Cal- 
eaire Grossier” of Mons, and is about to rectify it. Mr. Whitaker 
concludes his paper mentioned above, and Mr. Belt commences one 
“On the Lingula-flags or Ffestiniog Group.” 
These three numbers of the ‘Geological Magazine’ will thus be 
seen to contain many papers of great value, and we congratulate the 
editors on their success in sustaining its high character. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SocIETY. 
Several able communications on interesting subjects are con- 
tained in the November number of the Society’s Journal, and 
demand some notice from us. Capt. Spratt’s paper “On the Bone- 
caves of Malta” places before us.in a very clear manner the points of 
agreement and of difference observed to exist between some of the 
Maltese caverns. He describes three, namely, those of -Maghlak or 
Crendi, of Zebbug, and of Melliha. The first and last of these 
were found to contain remains of Hippopotamus (H. Pentlandi), 
with no traces of Elephant-remains. The Zebbug cavern, on the 
contrary, yielded abundant remains of the pigmy elephant of Malta, 
associated with some of a larger species, but without any indication 
of Hippopotamus. Notwithstanding this very pronounced distine- 
tion, there is one point of agreement noticed as existing between 
the Maghlak or Crendi and the Zebbug caverns. In the former, 
the stalagmite containing the Hippopotamus-remains was overlain 
by a layer without fossils, and this again by one containing bones 
and teeth of a large Dormouse (Myowus Melitensis), bones of Birds, 
and land-shells of existing species. In the latter, the sandy clay 
containing the Hlephant-remains also yielded bones and jaws of 
Myoxus Melitensis, bones of two large species of Swan, &¢. We 
thus obtain an indication of the relative ages of the Hippopotamus 
and the Elephant, the former being apparently the most ancient. 
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