Reviews — Bellamy ^ Jukes-Browne — Geology of Cyprus. 511 



of Myrtou in the Kerynia District. It is of considerable extent, and 

 has yielded specimens of Ostrea cochlear, obtained by Mr. Nicolls, 

 besides large numbers of Foraminifera, of which a list of 186 species 

 identified by Mr. F. W. Millett is given in Appendix iii. 



Although several memoirs, including an interesting account of 

 the Larnaka Salt Lake by Mr. Bellamy, have appeared since 

 Professor Gaudry's important work,^ the two publications mentioned 

 above form the first comprehensive treatise on the geology of the 

 whole island published since the completion of the Trigonometrical 

 Survey in 1882, and the authors are to be congratulated on the 

 manner in which this has been performed. Mr. Jukes-Browne has 

 not visited Cyprus, but, besides being jointly responsible for most 

 of the opinions expressed, he has contributed " all the descriptions 

 of the lithological composition and microscopical structure of rocks, 

 as well as comments on the fossils and inferences as to the relative 

 age of the several rock groups." On the other hand, Mr. Bellamy 

 has had five years experience of the island, almost every corner of 

 which he appears to have visited, and it must be mentioned that it 

 was entirely due to his own individual enterprise that these geological 

 labours were undertaken and brought to so successful an issue. 



Koughly speaking, Cyprus may be said to be made up of a central 

 mass of igneous mountains, the Northern or Kerynia Range of lime- 

 stone hills bordered on either side by the ' Hummocks ' (Kythrsean 

 Series), the generally hilly, white chalky country (Idalian Series), 

 and the later deposits of which the Messaoria and coastline are 

 chiefly composed. The descriptions of these various formations and 

 their subdivisions and the recording of a number of outliers in 

 different parts of the island give evidence throughout of the immense 

 care and continual close observation which have been brought to bear 

 on the subject. At the same time the work is by no means over- 

 elaborated, nor does it contain unnecessary repetition of matters 

 already fully entered into in more specialised memoirs ; rather it is 

 a comprehensive and concise summary of our knowledge up to date 

 of the subject, which has been verified and corrected at first hand 

 and further largely added to. 



In connection with the alluvial plains some interesting and 

 suggestive facts are given with regard to the raising of the general 

 level of the Messaoria by means of the silt brought down by the 

 streams and rivers from the mountains by which it is bordered in 

 two directions. After the mention of several phenomena which 

 help to prove this, we read (p. 49) that " This would yield as 

 a, mean rate of elevation of the surrounding country of, say, one foot 

 in a hundred years." It is seemingly owing to this, in conjunction 

 with the formation of sand-bars, that the eastern portion of the 

 Messaoria has become the fertile corn land that it now is instead 

 of remaining an inland extension of the Bay of Famagusta. That 

 there have been analogous, though less extensive, alterations in 

 other parts of the coastline during comparatively recent times, is 



1 Published in 1862. 



