New Books on Geology. R18" 
The Palzontographical Society’s Volume LIV. contains a number of 
valuable monographs. Dr. R. H. Traquair gives a further instalment of 
his work on the ‘ Carboniferous Ganoid Fishes’; Dr. A. Smith Woodward 
describes the ‘ Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk (Part VI.) ; Mr. Henry 
Wood’s work on the ‘ Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata of England ’ is con- 
tinued in a monograph on Inoceramus; Mr. R. I. Pocock describes the 
© Terrestrial Carboniferous Arachnida of Britain’; Drs. Gertrude Elles and 
E. M. R. Wood have Part VIII. of their ‘ British Graptolites.’ Altogether 
many hundred specimens are figured and described. We notice there are 
a few vacancies on the list of members, and we would strongly advise any 
of our readers interested to subscribe to this excellent publication. Full 
particulars can be obtained from Dr. A. Smith Woodward, at the British 
Museum (Natural History). 
Field Note Book of Geological Illustrations, by Hilda D. Sharpe. Man- 
chester: Sherratt & Hughes. 52 pp. 
Beyond the title-page and a ‘ Preface’ (1 page), and ‘ Table of Con- 
tents’ (3 pages), this volume is practically entirely composed of repro- 
ductions of photographs of geological sections, with a few diagrams, and 
tables showing the classification of minerals, rocks, etc. There is also a 
physical map and a geological map of the British Isles, and several blank 
pages for notes. From the preface we gather that the object of the book 
is not to replace text books, but to supplement them, and the collection of 
photographs is got together to aid students on their excursions or holidays. 
They illustrate various geological phenomena, etc., but beyond being 
more handy in book form we do not see that they have any advantage over 
the sets of prints issued by the British Association Geological Photographs’ 
Committee. Though the letterpress is reduced to a minimum there is a 
fair list of errata. 
The Student’s Lyell. Edited by John W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S..,. 
second edition, 1911. London: John Murray. lvi.+645 pp. 7/6 net. 
There are very many who can look back with pleasure upon the time 
when they perused ‘ Lyell,’ and in doing so seemed to be infected with the 
same enthusiasm that was obviously that of the author; and, notwith- 
standing the fact that as time goes on and more up-to-date text-books are 
published, it is still a pleasure to refer to Lyell, which somehow seems to 
stand aloof from them all. Unfortunately, and fortunately, science does. 
not stand still, and each year a whole army of workers in the geological 
field brings home the fruits of their labours, and adds them to the general 
store of knowledge. In this way the classics fall behind. Were it only 
possible, without in any way injuring the charm of the original work, to. 
bring it up-to-date, the volume might yet remain ideal. In the case of 
Lyell this has been done, and no one is better fitted for the work than 
Professor Judd, who knew Sir Charles so well. In the present edition the 
editor has given a history of the events which led up to the production of 
Lyell’s epoch-making work, particularly in regard to its bearing upon the 
“ Origin of Species,’ which Huxley justly asserted to be the logical sequence 
to the ‘ Principles of Geology.’ By a series of notes all the more important 
geological discoveries and conclusions are incorporated in this new 
edition. 
The Coast Scenery of North Devon, by E. A. Newell Arber, M.A., F.G.S., 
ete. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. xxiv.+261 pp. 10/6 net. 
We have frequently had occasion to refer to Mr. Newell Arber’s work 
in these pages. But in almost every instance the work has been more or 
less severely paleo-botanical and technical. In connection with his 
work on his favourite subject Mr. Arber has paid frequent visits to glorious 
Devon, but, apparently, he has occasionally been able to take his eye from 
his microscope and pocket lens, and view the world from a broader point 
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