426 Reviews — Lubbock's Scenery of Switzerland. 



the fact that one spine belongs to the Lower and the other to the 

 Middle Coal-measures. 



Horizon and Locality. — Marine baud, Middle Coal-measures, River 

 Tame, Dukinfield. 



In conclusion, I desire to record my indebtedness to Mr. A. Smith 

 Woodward, who first recognized the specimens as belonging to the 

 yenus Listracanthus. 



EEVIE W S. 



I. — The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to which it 

 is due. By the Eight Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., 

 F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D., F.G.S. 8vo, pp. xxxvi and 474, with 

 154 illustrations in the text and one folding map of Switzerland. 

 London: Macmillan and Co. (Limited), 1896. 



THIS book, which was issued in Jul}' last, will have already found 

 its way into many an Alpine tourist's knapsack, and been read 

 with pleasure in railway-train, or steam-boat, and in many a Swiss 

 hotel and chalet, by mountain and lake. 



Its author's varied writings are already agreeably known to and 

 welcomed by many thousands of our fellow-countrymen, both here 

 and in greater England beyond the seas. 



Whatever subject Sir John Lubbock takes up, he has the facility 

 to communicate the results of his studies, his readings, and his 

 observations, in an agreeable form to the public at large, who are 

 only too delighted to be told facts in natural history, geology, or 

 physical geography in clear and simple language, so that the reader 

 need not fear to be carried beyond his depth bj 7 a too learned 

 treatise, or told mere second-hand twaddle by an incompetent but 

 too officious guide. 



Sir John Lubbock is no mere tyro as a travelling companion to 

 the Swiss Alps. He tells us, that as long ago as 1861, he had the 

 pleasure of spending a short summer holiday in Switzerland with 

 Huxley and Tyndall, and that from that day to this many of his 

 holidays have been spent in the Alps. " On them," he adds, " I have 

 enjoyed many and many delightful days ; to them I owe much 



health and happiness My attention was from the first directed 



to the interesting problems presented by the physical geogi'aphy 

 of the country. 1 longed to know what forces had raised the 

 mountains, had hollowed out the lakes, and directed the rivers." 



The author read much of what has been written about them ; 

 but, like all students, he wanted some book which should give him 

 a short, comprehensive statement of the views of the various great 

 authorities who had devoted their lives to the unravelling of the vast 

 problems of the structure of the Alps, which might be useful to those 

 travelling in Switzerland ; but no such handy book was available. 



At last, after much hesitation, Sir John Lubbock resolved to write 

 such a work as he had himself felt the need of in the past, 

 and so set to work, aided by such valuable help as could be obtained 

 from Professor Heim, Sir John Evans, and others, and by making 





