312 Abich — Trans- Caucasian Researches, 



Araxes. In the " Carboniferous " rocks, overlying tlie " Devonian " of 

 Armenia, there appears to be no coal ; but it is found in the Jurassic 

 strata there. In the Caucasian isthmus there are Oxfordian grit-beds 

 containing plant-remains and coal, and these are related to the coal-beds 

 of the southern flank of the Caucasus (at Tqirbouly) and to analogous 

 deposits in the Elbourouz of Persia, — constituting, in fact, a grand 

 formation of the Oxfordian period, which stretches, probably, 

 beneath the basin of the Caspian. M. Abich has proof of the Ox- 

 fordian strata being well developed also in the mountains crossing 

 the Araxes, between Ordoubad and Migri, where coal of considerable 

 thickness and of Oxfordian age occurs near the village of Benampts- 

 chapour, up the Migri Valley, nearly 3,000 feet above the level of 

 the Araxes. Similar plant-bearing Oxfordian grits M. Abich dis- 

 covered, in 1862, in the mountains, north of the Lake of Gohtschai, 

 near Daschkesan, and La the valley of Bojan, near Elisabethpol ; and 

 in 1864, besides the indications above-mentioned, he found them also 

 oh the left bank of the valley of the Terter at the foot of the 

 Mourovdagh. T. R. J. 



VII. — The Dublin Quakterly Journal of Science. No. XXII. 



April, 1866. 



SOME very interesting papers on Zoology, Meteorology, Com- 

 parative Anatomy, and Archgeology, form the bulk of this part. 

 There is also an account by the Eev. Dr. S. Haughton of some 

 Meteoric Stones that have fallen in Ireland. One fell at Dundrum, 

 Tipperary, in August, 1865 ; it consists of Iron, Iron-oxide, Pyrites, 

 Chrysolite, and some other silicate of Magnesia, &c., with Nickel 

 and Chrome. Some aeroHtes that fell at Killeter, in Tyrone, April, 

 1864, consist of Iron, Iron-oxide, Pyrites, some Silicates, including 

 homblendic mineral, near to Anthophyllite, in composition, with a 

 little Nickel and Chrome, and a trace of Cobalt. , T. E. J. 



ZEaSATIE^WS. 



I. — Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and 

 OF THE Museum of Practical Geology. The Geology op 

 THE Country around Stockport, Macclesfield, Congleton, 

 AND Leek.— (Sheets 81, N.W., and 81, S.W., of the Map of the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain.) By E. Hull, B.A., F.G.S., 

 and A. H. Green, M.A., E.G.S. List of Fossils revised by E. 

 Ethekidge, F.E.S.E., F.G.S. Published by order of the Lords- 

 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. 8vo. London, 1866. 



THE district here described comprises, on the north, the south- 

 eastern prolongation of the Lancashire Coal-field, — on the south, 

 the northern apex of the Coal-field of the Potteries, one of the 



