474 Bibliographical Notices. 



of late 3*ears in the Silurian, Carboniferous, and Chalk rocks has 

 amply demonstrated. 



After the description of each coast-section, the authors deal in 

 detail with the inland exposures, and collect together a mass of 

 information which should prove extremely valuable when a zonal 

 survey of Counties is undertaken. That this must come in the 

 near future is evident by a recent attempt by Mr. Jukes-Browne 

 himself to indicate the zones in the Chalk of Suffolk from fossils 

 collected in pits. In the description of the Norfolk coast, Mr. Jukes- 

 Browne establishes a new zone, the zone of Ostrea lunata, on the 

 collections of Messrs. C. Reid and R. M. Brydone : the results 

 obtained by the latter were published in 1900. It is comforting to 

 be reminded that there is a certain amount of this interesting zone 

 inland, as shown by the Well at Mundesley, since the northern 

 shore-mass of lunata Chalk at Trimingham is almost worn away. 



Chapter xxi. is devoted to a sketch of the Upper Chalk of 

 France, wisely inserted for comparison. Chapter xxii. (pp. 302- 

 353), dealing with the microscopical characters of the Chalk, by 

 Mr. Hill, is a summary, with additions, of his well-known papers on 

 the subject. The author is indebted to Mr. F. Chapman (now of 

 Melbourne) for determining the Foraminifera and Ostracoda (p. iv). 

 A discussion of the chemical composition of the Chalk occupies 

 Chapter xxiii. (pp. 354-360). The bathy metric conditions and the 

 variations of the sea-bottom during the formation of the Upper 

 Chalk occupy Chapter xxiv. ; an account of the economic products, 

 Chapter xxv. (pp. 379-402) ; of the physical features, Chapter xxvi. 

 (pp. 402-424) ; and of the water-supply from the Chalk, Chapter 

 xxvii. (pp. 425-440). One Appendix contains critical remarks on 

 some of the fossils, and gives a list of all the known fossils up from 

 the Upper Greensand (Selbornian) to the O. lunata zone, with 

 careful indications of the zonal succession. Appendix II. gives a 

 full Bibliography of publications relating to the rocks and fossils of 

 the Upper Cretaceous Series of England. 



We congratulate the Officers of the Geological Survey and Messrs. 

 Jukes-Browne and Hill on having completed a very laborious and 

 tedious task. We wish we could do the same for the printers. 

 The paper seems better than usual, but there appears to bo a difficulty 

 in keeping the type clean; while in two copies of this work that 

 we have seen the diagram at p. 200 is shorn of many of its letters. 

 There are a few editorial slips — e. g., Pccten serrat at p. 12. Many 

 of the woodcuts are too antiquated for current books ; such new 

 ones as that on p. 26 are indeed a long way " after liowe " ; and it 

 is puzzling to distinguish in the picture at p. 91 the special layers of 

 flint alluded to in the text. 



Pictures of Bird-Life. By R. B. Lodge. 

 London : Bousfield & Co. 1903. 



Nowhere, perhaps, has the perfection of the camera and of photo- 

 graphic methods been more appreciated than among field-naturalists. 



