468 Reviews — Geological Survey of Western Australia. 



Dr. P. H. Carpenter. — On some points in the Morphology of the 



Cystides. 

 Professor Silvanus Thompson. — On the Source of the Eiver Aire. 

 0. W. Jeffs. — Report on Geological Photographs. 

 J. W. Davis.— Fossil Fish of the West-Riding Coal-Field. 

 A. Smith Woodward. — On the Discovery of a Jurassic Fish-Fauna 



in the Hawkesbury Beds of New South Wales. 

 A. Smith Woodward. — Communications on behalf of Professor Anton 



Fritsch (of Prague). Restorations of the Palaeozoic Elasmobranchs, 



Pleur acanthus and Xenacanthus. 

 J. E. Marr. — Report on the Registration of Type-Specimens. 



A. Bell. — Report on the " Manure-Gravels " of Wexford. 

 J. L. Lobley. — On the Origin of Gold. 



B. Q. M. Browne. — On the Historic Evidence as to the Change of 

 Sea-level off the South Coast of England. 



T. Hart. — Notes on Volcanic Paroxysms. 



Papers read in other Sections bearing on Geology and Palaeontology : — 

 Prof. 0. C. Marsh. — Cretaceous Mammals of North America. 

 Prof. J. Milne. — Report of the Committee on the Volcanic and 



Seismological Phenomena of Japan. 

 Dr. Tempest Anderson and Dr. Johnston-Davis. — A Visit to the 



Skapten District of Iceland. • 



EEYIEWS. 



I. — Geological Survey of Western Australia. Annual General 

 Report for 1888-1889. By Harry Page Woodward, F.G.S., etc., 

 Government Geologist. 8vo. pp. 60. (Perth, W.A., 1890.) 



THE geologist in Western Australia has a fine field for original 

 observations, for there is an area of upwards of a million 

 square miles in which up to the end of 1887 very little had been 

 done in the way of a systematic Geological Survey. Hitherto scarce 

 a dozen geologists have plied their hammers in this vast territory, 

 although some of them have done good and detailed work over 

 limited tracts, and have forwarded collections of fossils to England 

 for description. Many years must yet elapse before even the leading 

 geological features of Western Australia can be marked out ; but 

 during the years 1888 and 1889 a great deal has been accomplished 

 by the Government Geologist, Mr. Harry P. Woodward, whose 

 Report is now before us. A Geological Surveyor in Britain would 

 be astounded at the idea of mapping 64,000 and more square 

 miles in one year ; but such is the record of work done by this 

 energetic geologist in Western Australia, and it is easy to calculate, 

 in a rough way, the time that might be occupied in completing a 

 geological sketch-map of the entire Colony. 



The country has only been " settled " for about 200 miles inland, 

 whereas it is 1450 miles in its greatest length and 850 miles in 

 breadth. Mr. Harry Woodward, however, hopes to have examined 



