ws 
Reviews—Dr. A. Ulrich—S. American Paleontology. 367 
that he is quite right to express his views as to the propriety of 
leaving the Biblical account alone ; he tells us that it is not worth 
being measured by scientific forms of thought, and quotes Bacon 
and Sedgwick with appositeness, as to “the impossible task of 
equating science and faith.” 
“This vanity merits castigation and reproof the more, as, from the 
mischievous admixture of divine and human things, there is com- 
pounded at once a fantastic philosophy and a heretical religion ”’* 
As to the extreme views maintained by some Glacialists we happily 
have nothing in common, and we gladly leave them to controvert 
Sir Henry Howorth’s objections as best they can. (In matters of 
argument we notice that Sir Henry generally gets the best of 
his opponents!) Their condition in our opinion is very similar 
to that of the believers in the permanence of continents and oceanic 
basins. These are but the fushions of geology, “they have their 
entrances and exits,” its facts are what we are most careful to 
gather, let those theorise who will! Magna esé veritas, et prevalebit. 
IIJ.—ButrracGe zur GEOLOGIE UND PaALMONTOLOGIE VON SUDAMERIKA. 
1. Patmozo1scHE VERSTEINERUNGEN AUS Boutvien von Dr. 
Arnotp Utricu. Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, etc. Beilage- 
band viii. 1892, pp. 116, pls. i.-v. z 
ConTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY AND PaLmonToLoGy oF SourTH 
America. 1. Patmozoric Fossits From Boxivia. By Dr. A. 
UxRicu. 
HIS memoir is intended as the first of a series of sketches on the 
geology and paleontology of South America, based on the 
observations and collections made by Prof. G. Steinmann, who in a 
brief introduction gives an outline of the route followed during his 
late expedition to that Continent. With the exception of a few 
poorly-preserved Silurian fossils, Dr. Ulrich’s memoir consists of a 
description of a comparatively rich and well-marked fauna of 
Devonian age, mainly obtained from the highlands of Hastern 
Bolivia—some of the rocks are now at an elevation of 4,500 métres 
above the sea. The greater portion of this elevated country is built 
up of Devonian strata, which show two distinct series, of which the 
lower or Icla series principally consists of shaly beds reaching a 
thickness of 300 to 400 metres; the higher portion of these, known 
as the ‘ Conularia’ beds, is by far the most fossiliferous. The higher 
series, the thickness of which is not given, is mainly of sandstone 
and is known as the Huamampampa sandstone. Fossils have been 
found only in the lower beds of this series, and there is not a single 
species in common with the underlying Icla series. 
The fauna in these beds includes various species of Trilobites, 
Conularia, Hyolithus, Gasteropoda, Lamellibranchiata, and numerous 
Brachiopods; in all, between 60 and 70 species, which have been 
carefully worked out and figured by Dr. Ulrich. 
This fauna is purely Devonian in character, and it is chiefly 
remarkable for a strong resemblance to the Devonian fauna of the 
1 Sedgwick’s paraphrase of Bacon, Ann. Address, Q.J.G.S., vol. xxii. 
