Heviews — Geological Society's Journal. 29 



I. — The Quakterly Journal of the Gectlogical Society. No. 84, 

 November 1, 1865. 



THIS No. of the "London Geological Society's Journal" contains 

 the commiinications read before that Society from March to June, 

 1865, in full, with a few abridgements of Foreign Memoirs of late 

 date. Amateur and professional Geologists have herein supplied 

 facts and notions in relation to the Quatemaiy, Tertiary, Cretaceous, 

 Jurassic, Triassic, Carboniferous, Devonian, Silurian, Huronian, and 

 Laurentian Strata of different countries, and on fossils from several 

 of these groups ; they have given notes -on some mineral matters ; 

 there is a paragraph or two on volcanic rocks ; and we can readily 

 find many and good observations on primaeval man, the formation of 

 valleys, on Homotaxis, and other interesting geological subjects. 

 The Secretaries may have arranged their material so judiciously that 

 the Fellows should have in eight evening-meetings and in one No. 

 of their Journal a taste of every delicacy of the scientific season ; 

 or the Fellows and their friends, with a fair division of labour, may 

 have aimed at supplying a little of everything they required. But 

 it is more likely that the geological questions of the day have brought 

 essays and remarks from working and thoughtful geologists in- 

 terested in this or that division of the science, whether practical or 

 theoretical, descriptive or argumentative, mineralogical or geological, 

 and whether, in the latter case, interested in Tertiary, Secondary, or 

 Primary rocks and fossils. 



An ancient refuse-heap (or kjokkenmodding) of bones (many cut 

 and sawn), horns, crab-claws, etc., near Eichmond, in Yorkshire, 

 described by Messrs. Dawkins, Wood, and Eoberts, claims no real 

 geological antiquity, but witnessed the association of the bear with 

 m.an and the deer, fallow-deer, horse, short-homed ox, sheep, goat, 

 hog, and dog. M. Lartet, in a short paper, points out that the musk- 

 ox lived, together with man, in Southern France, 15 degrees further 

 south than its present limit in North America ; and that other asso- 

 ciates were the great cave-bear, lion, wolf, reindeer, and aurochs. 

 Busk, Falconer, and Warren supply notes on the Gibraltar Caves 

 and their osseous contents, indicating that Gibraltar was a part of 

 Africa when the more ancient infillings of the fissures took place ; 

 for the carnivores are African hyeenas and felidee. Man seems to 

 have left his remains there at a much later period. A posthumous 

 paper by Dr, Falconer points out that the evidences of a very high 

 antiquity for the human race will probably be found some day in 

 India, where, although the wide and deep alluvial accumulations of 

 the Ganges and Jumna have not yet yielded fossil remains of man, 

 yet even in the Miocene strata of the Sivalik Hills are found fossil 

 the camel, the horse, and the buff'alo, all which he has trained to 

 domestic service, — the giraffe, his present contemporary, — the gigantic 

 tortoise, which really figures in Indian mythology, witli the elephant, 

 python, and gigantic crane, — and lastly, the great apes, so near to 



