232 | Brief Notices. 
X.—Brier Norticrs. 
1. East Loruran. By T.S. Murr. Cambridge County Handbooks. 
pp. 177. 1915. Price 1s. 6d. net. ; 
HIS useful little volume maintains the high standard of the now 
familiar series to which it belongs. The county includes parts 
of the Central Plain and of the Southern Uplands, and boasts 
a picturesque coast, thus affording scope for a highly interesting 
geographical study. 
2. Vicror1an Tritopites.—In his series ‘‘ New or little-known 
Victorian Fossils in the National Museum”, Mr. F. Chapman has 
recently published a description of some Trilobites from the Yeringian 
(Upper Silurian) beds. These include new species of Goldius, 
Cyphaspis, and Calymene. Other genera represented are Proétus, 
Cheirurus, and Phacops. In adopting De Koninck’s name Goldius, 
1841, in place of Goldfuss’ Bronteus, 1843 [not 1834], Mr. Chapman 
might have given a reference to the original publication. Life-size 
photographs of the specimens are reproduced, and when these fail in 
clearness an enlarged drawing is added—a very good plan. 
3. HQuimseTITES IN JuRAssIc SHALE, WontHacel, Vicrorra.— Under 
the name Lguisetites wonthaggiensis Mr. F. Chapman describes the 
tuberous underground shoot of an equisetalean found in Jurassic shale 
from a boring at Wonthaggi, Victoria. Though Zquisetites has 
previously been described from South Gippsland, this is the first 
record of this particular structure from Australia (Rec. Geol. Surv. 
Victoria, vol. ili, p. 317). 
4. Tue Ort anp Gas Fretps or Onrarto aND QueEBec. By Wryarr 
Matcoum. Canada, Department of Mines, Geological Survey, 
Memoir 81, No. 67 Geological Series, Ottawa, 1915. pp.i11+248. 
N this memoir the author sets forth concisely the geological 
conditions existing in the southern parts of Ontario and Quebec 
underlain by sediments which have suffered little disturbance. The 
most important oil- and gas-producing fields lie in South-Western 
Ontario. The oil pools of Oil Springs and Petrolia, opened fifty 
years ago, occur in the Onondaga (Coniferous) formation, but gas and 
oil have been found in the Salina (Onondaga), Guelph, Clinton, and 
Medina formations. There has recently been a rapid decline in the 
production of oil in spite of the discovery of new pools, but the gas 
production has increased rapidly. 
5. Coat Fretps anp Coat Resources or Canapa. By D. B. 
Dowxine. Canada, Department of Mines, Geological Survey, 
Memoir 59, No. 55 Geological Series. pp. vili+174. Ottawa, 
1915. 
fJ\HIS memoir is reprinted with some additions from the report on 
the Coal Resources of the World presented to the Twelfth 
International Geological Congress. Canada appears to have large 
reserves of coal, but much of it is not available for the commerce of 
the British Empire. Large supplies of bituminous and sub-bituminous 
coals exist in the western interior, and to a lesser extent on both 
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