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Wegener, which in 1912-138 crossed between latitudes 72° and 78°. 
Professor Hobbs’ valuable memoir indicates that glacial geology will 
_ be advanced most from recent Polar work by the meteorological 
evidence. 
TX.—Sxerca or tHE Lire or Epuarp Svuzss (1831-1914). By 
P. Trrurer. Smithsonian Report, 1914, Publication 2358, 
pp- 709-18. 
(¥\HE Smithsonian Report for 1914(pp. 709-18) includes a translation 
of the admirable sketch of Suess by Professor Termier, the 
Continental geologist who most approaches Suess in what has been 
called his geopoetic style. Professor Termier’s sympathetic and 
luminous eulogy lays stress on Suess’ Jewish origin, on the difficulties 
he encountered as a student in Vienna, which nearly drove him into 
commercial life, on his useful service in the municipal and national 
polities of Austria, on his two works, Die Hnstehung der Alpen and 
Das Anthtz der Erde, and on the intuitive nature of his mental 
methods. Professor Termier insists that the volumes of the Antilitz 
‘‘contain scarcely any theories”. The author, he says, ‘‘does not 
seek to explain or convince—he shows.” He defends Suess from 
the criticism that on many controversial questions he adopted an 
indecisive and timid attitude, on the ground that Suess was never 
a theorist, that he did not care to argue on scientific matters, for he 
was content with seeing, and, having seen, with showing. He claims 
that Suess ‘‘ did not say all, he made few personal observations, he did 
not foresee everything, but by his intuitions, truly those of a genius, 
of relations and their causes, he incited, prepared, made possible 
decisive observations, observations which have revolutionized our ideas 
and illuminated our knowledge”’. 
JE Wee Ge 
X.—BrisiiograPuy oF YorksHire Grotogy. Forming Proceedings of 
the Yorkshire Geological Society, vol. xiii. C. Fox-Strangways’ 
Memorial Volume. By ‘Il. Suevparp. 8vo; pp. xxvi, 6380. 
London, Hull, and York, 1915. Price 15s. net. 
T the time of his death Mr. Fox-Strangways had accumulated an 
y incomplete MS. towards a Bibliography of Yorkshire Geology 
from 1534 to 1892. This has been revised and brought up to 1914 
by Mr. Sheppard of Hull, who has for many years contributed 
annual lists to the Waturalist. That it should be printed and issued 
by the Yorkshire Geological Society is an evidence at once of its 
value and the wisdom of that Society. Yorkshire geologists have 
now an encyclopedic work to hand to further their efforts and to 
save their time. Works are arranged chronologically, then follows 
a list of the maps and sections of the Geological Survey, and finally 
an index of 1380 double-column pages which gives subjects and 
localities much in the same way as the Annual Lists of Literature 
received by the Geological Society of London. It will be of extreme 
value to all local workers and scarcely of less to those at a distance, 
