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Xo change has been made in the method of treatment, which, as 

 we have already remarked, seems to us wanting in fulness and to 

 miss a great opportunity for suggestive generalizations. Perchance 

 Capt. Reid may be induced to give us a general summary on the 

 study of oology in the last volume. Nowhere is the need for such 

 a summary so well exemplified as in the case of the treatment of 

 the eggs of the Common Cuckoo. 



This volume is illustrated by ten coloured plates, remarkable for 

 their extreme beauty. The selection of the figures has obviously 

 been most carefully made. 



The Geological Structure of Monzoni and Fassa. By Marie M. 

 Ogilvie Gordon, D.Sc, Ph.D. 1902-03 [1903]. 8vo". 180 pages, 

 with 14 photographs, 33 figures, 4 geological sections (black and 

 -white), 8 geological sections (coloured), 1 table of stratigraphical 

 succession, 1 coloured geological map, and 1 reference contour 

 and fault map. Edinburgh : Turnbull and Speers. London : 

 Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 



This memoir is a " Special Part" of Vol. viii. of the 'Transactions 

 of the Edinburgh Geological Society,' published in 1903. The 

 date of " 1902 " on the titlepage refers to the year when it was read 

 before the Royal Society, as stated in the Prefatory Note. According 

 to the generally accepted bibliographical and nomenclatorial rules 

 only the date of publication can be taken for the chronological 

 status of a book. An abstract having been printed elsewhere, the 

 Royal Society, by its rules, could not itself print the paper. 



The Alpine Range, as a whole, is well known as a region that 

 has been subjected to repeated movements ; and, indeed, it cannot be 

 positively said that the cracks in the rocks and their displacements 

 are even now in a state of absolute equilibrium. In the South 

 Tyrol the elevated areas of Triassic strata, rugged and precipitous, 

 are characterized by more or less isolated, rudely columnar or 

 sharply peaked mountains, which have long been objects of wonder 

 to the tourist and of study to the Geologist. To the former it has 

 attractions in its picturesque aspects ; but, if his reflections reach 

 farther and deeper than the common notions of mystery and romance 

 among the bizarre cliffs, peaks, and gorges, he may well desire to 

 know the " why and wherefore " of their real history and outcome. 

 This country has for a long time been carefully examined by many 

 Continental Geologists, to whose published observations and de- 

 scriptions Miss Ogilvie (afterwards Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon) has referred 

 in several papers. Attention had, however, been especially drawn 

 to the fossils of Saint Cassian &c. Difficulties, however, were found 

 in determining the relationships of the strata and the fossils. Of 

 late years the lady-student above mentioned directed her energies 

 to the elucidation of the doubts and difficulties which seemed 

 hitherto to be beyond solution. Aided and guided especially by the 

 advice of Baron von Richthofen among her Continental and of 



