492 Bibliographical Notices. 



(3) that of the Chalk Foraminifera, and (4) that of the Fishes of the 

 Chalk are especially noticeable. 



Having thus indicated the chief features of the new edition of 

 Dixon's ' Geolog}' of Sussex/ we are sure that it will command the 

 attention it so well deserves, and that the people of Sussex wiU be 

 proud of so good a work, written and published amongst themselves. 

 And though brought out for the honour of Brighton and the 

 county (we are assured in the Preface) without expectation of ade- 

 quate remuneration, by the liberal and patriotic publisher, we trust 

 that educated men of all stages of society, not only in Sussex, but 

 of England throughout, will support so praiseworthy an under- 

 taking. Nor are we without expectation that, not only British, 

 but Continental, Colonial, and American geologists will fully appre- 

 ciate and, if possible, possess themselves of so useful and well- 

 iUustrated an epitome of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Geology of 

 the South-east of England. 



A Catalogue of Australian Fossils (including Tasmania and the Island 

 of Timor) stratigrapTiically and zoologicallif arranged. By Robert 

 Etheridge, Jun., F.G.S. &c. Edited for the Syndics of the 

 University Press. 8vo. Pp. x and 232, Cambridge, 1878. 



The production of this model Catalogue of Fossils is highly credit- 

 able to the author and to the Syndics of the Cambridge Press. It is 

 a work of love by a conscientious and enthusiastic geologist, and a 

 very useful and elaborate volume printed liberally by the University 

 at considerable expense. 



Australia, with its vast continental area, vies with the longer- 

 known continents in geological interest, and, like other lands, can 

 be fully adapted to the requirements of civilization only by a proper 

 knowledge of its geological structure on the part of its occupiers. 

 How much has been done to acquire aud impart this valuable 

 knowledge by the zeal, energy, and self-saci'ificing labours of ex- 

 plorers, surveyors, and amateurs in the Australian Colonies is clear 

 to the reader of the Preface, and the student of the Text, Appendix, 

 and Bibliographic List, in Mr. Etheridge's categorical epitome of 

 Australian and Tasmanian palaeontology. We have in this well- 

 arranged book a full list of the fossil organic remains hitherto dis- 

 covered in these regions, arranged zoologically under the several 

 great stratal series. Thus: — 1. " Lower Palaeozoic, Silurian " (24 

 pages) ; 2. " Middle and Upper Palaeozoic, Devonian and Carbo- 

 niferous " (63 pages) ; 3. "Mesozoic" (24 pages) ; 4. "Tertiary" 

 (53 pages); 5. "Post-tertiary" (20 pages); 6. '■^ Incertoe sedts" 

 those " species to which either no definite geological horizon, locality, 

 or systematic position can be assigned " (2 pages) ; and 7 (in an 

 appendix of 6 pages). Those species and references published or met 

 with whilst the sheets were in ]>ress. A closely-printed list of books 

 and papers consulted by the author fills 22 pages ; and a careful 

 index of the genera (6 pages) completes this excellent Catalogue. 



Not only does this book, as a list of genera and species, meet the 



