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without getting water. Either this boring, or the similar well at 
Hastings, should be persevered with (if possible), for the sake of 
solving the problem as to what underlies the Upper Secondary 
Strata in S.E. England. Mr. Drew’s account of Romney Marsh, 
and of its mode and time of formation, is well worthy of praise both 
for geologist and antiquary. 
3. The Explanation of Sheets 187, 195, and 196 of the Geolo- 
gical Survey Map of Ireland, and of Sheets 192 and 199 (part), by 
Mr. J. B. Juxes, with Paleontological Notes by Mr. W. H. Batty, 
go far towards elucidating the Geology of South Iveland, both by 
description of strata and fossils, and by the philosophicai explana- 
tion of observed facts. The first of these two Memoirs treats of the 
district including the mouth of the River Lee, Cork Harbour, and 
neighbouring country; the second comprises ‘the country round 
the head of Bantry Bay, and a large part of the mountain-ground 
between that Bay and Kenmore Bay on the north, and the rocky 
promontory between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay on the south.’ 
These Memoirs treat of—l. The Old Red Sandstone (Lower and 
Upper).—2. The Carboniferous Slate (including the ‘Coomhola 
Grits’) and the Lower Limestone Shale.—3. The Carboniferous 
Limestone (in the first Memoir only).—4. Drift, Gravel, Clay, 
Boulders, &c.—5. Alluvium, Peat-bog, &c. The districts described 
in these Memoirs were surveyed ten years ago and more; but the 
want of liberality on the part of Government for some years, keep- 
ing the Irish branch of the Survey without a resident Palzeontolo- 
gical Officer, delayed the determination of the numerous charac- 
teristic fossils collected ; and hence the delay in publication is not 
the fault of the Officers of the Survey, but the result of the in- 
adequate means afforded them to carry out their work to completion. 
The many figures of fossils, and the several sections, all boldly sketched 
on wood, and the long lists and careful descriptions of organic remains, 
are good features in these valuable Memoirs. 
THe OSWESTRY AND WELSH-PooL NATURALIST’S FIELD-CLUB AND 
ARCHZOLOGICAL SociETy. RrErort oF MEETINGS DURING THE 
Years 1857-64; TOGETHER WITH ALL THE PAPERS READ BY 
MEMBERS OF THE CiuB. Edited by W. W. How, M.A.; D. C. 
Davies ; and H. M. GwytTuHer. 
nN RICH geological district, with careful and enthusiastic harvest- 
men, has here produced a good crop of observations, some having 
reference to discoveries, some enhancing the value of known facts, 
and all ripened, in the warmth of friendly co-operation, on the sunny 
sides of the Welsh hills,—ofter indeed, it seems, interrupted by ‘a 
pouring wet day,’ which, however, did not prevent the Members 
from being ‘jolly under the circumstances.’ Nor have the Botanists 
been less active than the Geologists in gathering new facts and re- 
setting the old ones in attractive discourses. Zoologists and Anti- 
quaries, too, play their part well. And we cannot be astonished at 
finding this little volume fulfilling the functions of a Naturalist’s 
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