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manufacture to some extent migrated to Ireland. The woodsof hat 
country were full of timber when those of England were nearly ex- 
hausted. The trade at once followed the fuel in spite of a want of 
ore in Ireland. . . Ireland became an iron exporting country’ (p. 
282). 
To look to the things of our own times is more pleasant than to 
look forward with Mr. Jevons to those of the future. ‘Of a total 
(yearly) produce of 1363 millions of tons (about the years 1858-60), 
103 millions are produced by nations of British origin and language, 
and 80 millions are produced in Great Britain itself.’ If too we can 
take a wide view of the now proud adjective, ‘ British,’ and apply it 
to all men of our widespread race, we may look into the years to 
come with less sorrow than if we use it only for those who live in 
these islands ; for though our coal-fields are far greater than all 
others in Europe, those of North America, which are all in the pos- 
session of men of Anglo-Saxon race, ‘almost indefinitely surpass 
ours in extent, and it may be added, in contents’ (p. 254). 
Lord Stanley in a late speech at the meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation at Birmingham, said, according to the ‘ Times,’ that Mr. Hull 
had taken a sanguine view of ‘the Coal Question,’ and Mr. Jevons a 
desponding one. Let us hope that there may be a mean between 
them, and that Mr Jevons may be amongst the first to acknowledge 
it in a future edition. Meanwhile we commend: this book to the 
notice, not only of geologists, but of statists and politicians, as a 
specimen of sound reasoning, though we think that value enough has 
not been given to those accidental circumstances which often turn 
up unexpectedly and produce unlooked-for results. 
WJ.—Tue Mitistone Grit, its Fossits AND THE RELATION IT 
BEARS TO OTHER GROUPS OF ROCKS, MORE PARTICULARLY AS IT 
OCCURS IN THE BristoL District, AND SOUTH-WEST OF ENG- 
LAND GENERALLY. By Fort-Major Tuomas Austin, F.G.S., &e. 
1865, London; H. Batturere. 8vo. Pp. 58; 5 Plates. 
Bee Memoir before us is intended to convey to Geologists the 
result of the author’s observations on the Millstone Grit, as 
observed near Bristol and in the South-west of England. 
Major Austin not only enters into the question of the relation 
which this formation bears to other strata above and below it, 
but also gives a list and descriptions, accompanied by figures, of the 
organic remains he has been so fortunate as to obtain. 
This catalogue includes 47 species found in the Bristol area, 
about one-half of which (23) are Brachiopods, the remainder com- 
prising 1 Gasteropod, 20 Conchifera, 2 Crustacea, and 1 Fish- 
remain. 
Any information to be cbtained concerning the ‘ Farewell Rock,’ 
or Millstone Grit, will be acceptable to the Geologist, whilst the 
Palzontologist will desire to compare its fossil-remains with those 
from the same rock in other and distant localities. 
The Carboniferous series of the South-west of England is generally 
