418 Notices of Memoirs. 



5. The Conflict of Truth. — This is a book by Mr. F. Huofb 

 Capron, apparently written to reconcile Religion and Science. To 

 those who are interested in this matter these 509 pages of argument 

 may prove more absorbing at this time of year than throwing 

 pebbles into the sea. There are chapters on "the six days of the 

 formation," " the antiquity of man," and divers other matters. 

 Publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, 1902 ; price 10s. 6d. 



6. A New Meteorite. — Mr. Geo. P. Merrill describes some 

 20,000 grams of meteorite which fell at Admire, Lyon County, 

 Kansas, probably 30 years ago. It is a pallasite and belongs to 

 Brezina's Eokicky Group, consisting of metallic iron and olivine. 



7. Tarcoola, — The Record of the Mines of South Australia, 

 issued by H. Y. L. Brown in 1902, deals with " Tarcoola and the 

 North- Western District." The report is concerned mainly with the 

 goldfields. The mass of the country consists of Cambrian (?) and 

 metamorphic rocks, with Tertiary conglomerates and gravels, but 

 there are gypseous clays at Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. A geo- 

 logical sketch-map is appended. 



8. FoRAMiNiFERA. — Among the recent publications on this group 

 may be mentioned Rhumbler's important paper on the double shells 

 of Orbitolites and other foraminif'era, with excellent illustrations, 

 published in the Archiv fiir Protistenkunde, 1902. The author 

 deals with and endeavours to explain the curious 'twinning' so 

 common in Orbitolites. Messrs. R. B. Newton and R. Holland 

 describe in the Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 1902, Bryozoa and Fora- 

 minifera from the Formosa and Riu-Kiu Islands ; there are four 

 plates, chiefly rock-sections showing organisms, and a figure of 

 an Operculina which appears to have been an inch in diameter. 

 Schlumberger (Bull. Soc. geol. France, 1901) figures Orbitoides 

 media, d'Arch., and other forms of the genus, and discusses the 

 genus in general ; in another note (Samml. Geol. Reichs-Mus. 

 Leiden, 1902) he describes a remarkable quadristellate Lepidocylina 

 from Borneo, Barrois records the genera Endothyra, Teutularia, 

 Lagena ? and Valvulina ? from the Carboniferous phtanites of the 

 Boulonnais (Ann. Soc. geol. Nord, 1902) ; and Lomnicki mentions 

 the occurrence of Globigerina and Sphceroidina in the Miocene sands 

 of Leopol (Kosmos, Lemberg, 1902). Fornasini, ever busy in this 

 group of animals, has papers on three species of Textularia and 

 a PolymorpMna founded by d'Orbigny in 1826, a continuation of 

 his valuable notes on forms described but not figured hitherto ; 

 on 0. G. Costa's Fauj'asina ; on the date of publication of Costa's 

 " Foraminiferi di Messina" ; and on the nomenclature of " Nautilus 

 (Orthoceras) pennatula " of Batsch : all these papers appear in the 

 Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia for 1902. Schubert discusses 

 Defrance's genus Textularia, and with Liebus records foramiuifera 

 from the Devonian (Etage G-gg, Barr.) of Bohemia (Verb. k.k. geol. 

 Reichs., 1902). 



9. OsTRACODA OF THE BaSAL CaMBRIAN RoCKS OF CaPE BreTON.' — 



Dr. G. F. Matthew has described a considerable number of species 



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