420 Revieics — Western Australia — 



II. — 1. Western Australia in 1893. By Francis Hart. Illus- 

 trated by Maps of the Colony and numerous Photograveures 

 and Sketches. Published by authority of the Government of 

 Western Australia (1893). London: 8vo. pp. 276. Issued in 

 1894. 



2. Western Australian Year-Book for 1892-93 (seventh 

 year of issue). By Malcolbi A. C. Eraser, Eegistrar-General. 

 By authority, pp. i.-viii. and 1-276, with a Map of the Colony. 

 (Perth, 1893.) 



3. Mining Hand-Book to the Colony of Western Australia, 

 written expressly for Prospectors and Strangers to the Colony 

 who are interested in Mining. By Harry P. Woodward, F.G.S., 

 F.E.G.S., F.I.Inst., Government Geologist. By authority of the 

 Commissioner of Crown Lands. 8vo. pp. 126, illustrated with 

 numerous Maps, etc. (Perth, 1894.) 



4. Geological Sketoh-Map of Western Australia, 1894. 

 Scale of Nature 1 : 3,000,000. By Harry P. Woodward, F.G.S., 

 F.E.G.S., F.I.Inst., Government Geologist, Perth. Size of Map 

 2 feet X 3 feet. (Published by George Phillip and Son, 32, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.C.) 



WE have frequently called attention to this rapidly-advancing 

 colony in the pages of the Geological Magazine, and many 

 of its fossils have been described and figured in its pages.-' 



This year has been more than usually proiifiG in publications issued 

 by authority of the Government of Western Australia, and none 

 need henceforth complain of being kept in ignorance of the 

 wonderful discoveries as to its mineral resources, which have so 

 astonished the world during the past few years. 



Mr. Hart's Handbook is now in its second edition, and is what 

 it professes to be, an excellent compilation from official and other 

 reliable sources, of all matters of interest, whether political, mining, 

 or agricultural, relating to the colony of Western Australia. 



In extent of territory it greatly exceeds all the other Australian 

 colonies ; and only a short time since it was seriously proposed to 

 subdivide it, but for the present it remains intact, with a length of 

 1400 miles from north to south, 1000 from east to west, and a coast- 

 line of more than 3000 miles. Nevertheless, with all its natural 

 advantages of climate and geographical extent, it has until the 

 present the smallest population of any colony on that continent ; 

 but the author believes that population by means of emigration can 

 only be obtained in competition with other countries, by offering 

 some stronger attraction to the emigrant, as did the great gold 

 discoveries in Victoria in 1851. Such a magnetic attraction is now 



1 Geol. Mag. Dec. III. Vol. III. 1886, pp. 1-7, PL I.; Geol. Mag. 1889, 

 p. 432. Ibid. 1890, pp. 97, 98-106, Pis. IV. and V. ; pp. 145-155, Pis. VI. and 

 VTI. ; pp. 193-204, Pis. VIII. and VIII. a; pp. 481-492, Pis. XIII. and XIV. 

 Ihicl. 1892, pp. 132, 133 ; pp. 433-437, PL XII. ; pp. 468, 469, 542-544, 

 PL XIV. Ihicl. 1893, p. 288; pp. 412, 413. Ibid. 1894, pp. 385-393 et seq., 

 Pis. XII. and XIII. 



