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6. 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. Each 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 whore 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 

 talcen 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 «*ach species, and whether dead or living, and condition, all clearly 

 statetl for everv dredging. At the same time we trvist 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 tlicn- is far more in it to admire than to dis- 

 approve. 



The Phyncal Geology and Geography of Great Britain : Six Lee- 

 tures to Working Men, delivered in the Royal School of Mines 

 in 18(33. By Prof.. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. &c. Second edition, 

 pp.199. London :£. 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 geologj- 

 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 

 nommal 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 



