168 Bibliographical Notices. 



field of operations of this Naturalists' Society in South Wales, is 

 appended. 



Two memoirs (reprinted from the ' Geological Magazine '), and 

 their plates, illustrative of fossil Eeptiles and fossil Bivalved Ento- 

 mostraca discovered in South Wales by Mr. J. E. Lee and Mr. W. 

 Adams, and described by Prof. Owen and Prof. Rupert Jones re- 

 spectively, form part of this highly praiseworthy volume of reports 

 and transactions. 



Geology. By Prof. John Moreis, F.G.S., &c., and Prof. T. Rupert 

 Jones, F.G.S., &c. First Series. 12mo. London : Van Voorst, 

 1870. 



Professor Rupert Jones is probably of opinion that the clergy have 

 too long had a monopoly of the convenience of possessing printed 

 skeletons for their discourses. In order to extend a similar benefit 

 to geological lecturers, he publishes, in the little volume now before 

 us (which is to be followed by a Manual of Geology of the regula- 

 tion pattern), the heads of lectures on Geology and Mineralogy de- 

 livered by him from 1866-1870, at the Cadet College, Sandhurst, 

 together with the synopses of Lectures used at the StalF and Cadet 

 Colleges, Sandhurst. As far as the mere furnishing of skeleton 

 courses of lectures is concerned, this little book, coming from the 

 hands of a highly accomplished geologist and experienced teacher, 

 will prove of immense value to those who are entering upon a course 

 of geological tuition, and especially to regular science-teachers and 

 to schoolmasters, who, possessing already some knowledge of the 

 subject, desire to give their pupils instruction in geology. 



Professor Rupert Jones considers also that the book may be useful 

 to the student, who " will find clear statements and explanations of 

 the things, facts, and circumstances on which Geology is based ; " 

 and this, to a certain extent, is certainly the case ; but it seems to 

 us that the information given is t6o condensed and purely syn- 

 optical in its nature to enable any but very exceptional students 

 to learn Geology from it. But with the help of other books 

 there can be no doubt that these skeletons of courses of lectures, 

 which contain perfectly intelligible references to a vast mass of 

 details, may be of great service by the admirable series of classifi- 

 cations of geological facts which they present ; and we must also 

 confess, in the author's justification, that the amount of instruction 

 that he has compressed into so smaU a space is perfectly astonish- 

 ing, when we study the contents of his book by means of its cross 

 references and index, in the manner recommended by him. More- 

 over, as a work of instruction, this part is placed rather at a 

 disadvantage by its appearance without the second part, or Geo- 

 logical Manual properly so caUed, which will of course contain the 

 expanded details of the subjects here treated with extreme brevity. 



There is yet another light in which the authors do not seem to 

 have regarded their present work, but viewed in which it seems to 

 us to promise to be exccedingly^scrviceable — namely, as a note-book 



