422 Reviews — Geological Survey of India. 



believes that the river-beds already discovered indicate a heavy rainfall 

 at the close of the Tertiary era, and that there must have been many 

 such large rivers, whose beds and courses remain to be discovered by 

 the geologists of the future. 



IV. — Geological Survey oe India. 



AN essay on " The Geology of the Andaman Islands, with references 

 to the Nicobars", by Mr. G. H. Tipper (Mem. Geol. Surv. India, 

 vol. xxv, pt. iv, 1911), contains two colour-printed maps of the three 

 islands on the scale of 1 inch to 4 miles. The middle island was 

 not explored, " on account of the wild Jarawa tribe." The formations 

 represented are Upper Cretaceous serpentines, Eocene conglomerates 

 and sandstones, Miocene limestones, shell marls, and Foraniiniferal 

 sands, also Miocene (?) beds with Badiolaria, and Recent mangrove 

 swamps. In addition there are some scattered exposures of quartzites, 

 jaspers, and porcellanic limestones of Pre-Tertiary age, in part Lower 

 Cretaceous, and into these the igneous rocks have been intruded. 

 Coal occurs in pockets in the Eocene sandstones ; it is of poor quality, 

 and no sign of a continuous seam has been observed. 



In the Eecords of the Geological Survey, vol. xli, pts. i and ii, 

 1911, there are accounts of deposits of manganese-ore in the Central 

 Provinces and in Bengal, by Mr. L. L. Fernior ; of the Baluchistan 

 earthquake of October 21, 1909, by Mr. A. M. Heron; and of 

 observations in Kashmir, by Mr. C. S. Middlemiss. There are also 

 descriptions, accompanied by two plates, of Devonian fossils from 

 Chitral, Persia, Afghanistan, and the Himalayas, by Mr. E. B. 

 Cowper Beed. In the General Beport of the Geological Survey of 

 India, Mr. H. H. Hayden, Director, gives particulars of the work 

 done during 1910, and records the unusually heavy losses caused by 

 the retirement on October 29 of Mr. T. D. La Touche and on 

 November 30 of Sir Thomas H. Holland, the Director. 



V. — La Face de la Terre (Das Antlitz der Erde). Par Ed. Suess. 

 Traduit avec l'autorisation de l'auteur et annote sous la direction 

 de Emmanuel de Margerie. Tome iii, 2 e partie. 8vo ; pp. xii, 

 581-956. Avec 2 cartes en couleur et 124 figures dont 101 

 nouvelles (89 executees specialement pour l'edition francaise). 

 Paris, 1911. 12 fr. 



WE have already called attention to the English edition of this 

 work, and the present volume contains the text of the first seven 

 chapters of the English vol. iv (noticed in Geol. Mag., April, 1910, 

 p. 178). The French edition, as indicated in the title, contains many 

 additional illustrations, and it has the advantage also of additional 

 references, some of them to works published this year, and the titles 

 are properly inserted between brackets. In the work of translation 

 M. de Margerie has been assisted by MM. Henri Baulig, Paul Lemoine, 

 and Ch. Jacob. 



