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papers is credited to Mr. Kidston (" Kidston, 3 "). The practice of 

 omitting authors' initials leads to the confusion, for example, of the 

 late German palseobotanist, C. E. Weiss, with the present professor 

 of botany at Manchester ; while similarly (see index) no distinction 

 is made between Professor W. P. Thomas and Mr. Hamshaw Thomas 

 of Cambridge. 



In other respects, however, Dr. Pelourde has produced an excellent 

 condensed account of fossil plants, as far as the Pteridophytes, in the 

 light of modern knowledge. 



IV. — Australasian Fossils : A Student's Manual of Paleontology. 

 By Frederick Chapman, Palaeontologist to the National Museum, 

 Melbourne, pp. 341, 150 figures, and map. Melbourne, Sydney, 

 Adelaide, Brisbane, and London: George Robertson «& Co., 1914. 



MR. CHAPMAN has in numerous memoirs added largely to our 

 knowledge of the fossil flora and fauna of the Southern 

 Hemisphere, and, in the work now before us, has conferred a great 

 boon upon all students of geology in the Dominions of Australia and 

 New Zealand. The necessity of such a work as the present will 

 be manifest to everyone who remembers that in all the published 

 geological treatises the examples and illustrations given are those of 

 the fossils of Europe and North America; the descriptions and figures 

 supplied by Mr. Chapman will serve to admirably redress this 

 grievance of geological students at the Antipodes. 



In a short, but very clear, iutroduction to the book Professor 

 Skeats admirably summarizes the principles of palseontological science. 

 In the body of the work the author, after some preliminary chapters, 

 gives an account of the fossils of each of the great classes of plants 

 and animals, the arrangement in each class being a stratigraphical 

 one, while the very numerous figures admirably illustrate the text. 

 At the end of each chapter there is given a list of the common or 

 characteristic forms of the group described, with complete series of 

 references to the literature dealing with the class of organisms. 



The work closes with an appendix on the collection and preservation 

 of fossils, to which is added a list of fossil localities, illustrated by 

 a map of Australia and New Zealand, on which the position of these 

 localities is shown. The work cannot fail to be of great service, not 

 only to students, but to all interested in geological studies on the 

 other side of the globe. 



V. — Tennkssee State Geological Survey. 

 Bulletin 16. The Red Iron Ores of East Tennessee. By 

 Ernest F. Burchard. pp. 173, with 17 plates (including 5 maps) 

 and 30 figures in the text. 1913. 



THIS bulletin describes the ore-deposits situated in the northern 

 part of the Chatanooga District of East Tennessee, and discusses 

 very briefly the ore-bearing formations and the rocks immediately 

 associated with them. Deposits of ore occur in three formations : 

 the Tellico Sandstone (Ordovician), the Rockwood formation (Silurian), 



