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G. C. Atkinson ; some of which memoirs have already appeared in 
our pages. There is, moreover, a series of papers composing the 
Dredging-Report of 1863, containing much important matter. We 
think, however, that it would be well for the editor of the report 
to adopt for the future greater uniformity in tabulating the results 
of the dredgings. Lach list, for example, ought to be drawn up 
after the same plan, with the same system of nomenclature through- 
out, so far as concerns locality and depth. As it is, very little in- 
formation at all is given respecting the depth of the different dredg- 
ings, or the nature of the ground, both of which are points of 
great importance in the distribution of species. Regarding the lo- 
calities where the dredging-operations took place, each author seems 
to have adopted a nomenclature of his own: thus one set of dredg- 
ings is referred to, by the different authors of the report, as having 
taken place ‘off Berwick,” “off Holy Island,’’ and in “ Berwick 
Bay ;” and we suspect that ‘‘the Durham coast’’ and “ off Seaham” 
both refer to the same locality though they appear to refer to dif- 
ferent places. All this is very confusing, and may lead to the report 
being misunderstood. When the next Dredging-Report appears, we 
should be glad to see the different dredging-papers drawn up after 
the method of Edward Forbes and M‘Andrew, with the locality, 
depth, nature of ground, distance from shore, quantity of individuals 
of each species, and whether dead or living, and condition, all clearly 
stated for every dredging. At the same time we trust that some 
explanation will be given of the signs used in the lists ; for at present 
who except the authors can have the slightest idea of what is ex- 
pressed by the letters c., r., r.c., v., &c.? 
Notwithstanding these and the preceding strictures which we have 
deemed it our duty to make in noticing this Part of the Tyneside 
Transactions, we must say, in conclusion, as we said or implied at 
the beginning, that there is far more in it to admire than to dis- 
approve. 
The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain: Six Lec- 
tures to Working Men, delivered in the Royal School of Mines 
in 1863. By Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. &c. Second edition, 
pp: 199. London: E. Stanford. 1864. 
The success of this little book has confirmed an impression we 
have long been under, that one of the most paying works a com- 
petent geologist could undertake is a new edition of Conybeare and 
Phillips’s ‘Geology of England and Wales.’ Students of geology 
would accept it as a guide, and professed geologists would use it as 
a text-book, while professors and lecturers would recommend it as 
both. 
These Lectures were not published with any such ambitious 
design: they were delivered to an audience of working men, at a 
nominal fee of sixpence for the course, in the Museum of Practical 
Geology ; and the first edition of them was printed last year from 
the notes of a short-hand writer. Prof. Ramsay remarks, in his 
