480 Miscellaneous. 



A question liere arises, whether the vast thickness and weight of 

 such an incumbent mass of ice, was not the true cause of the sub- 

 mergence. A change in the centre of gravity of the globe's surface 

 will explain this. The subsidence of the land may well be referred 

 to, as it is by Professor Prestwich, as that of the cause of the 

 Traditional Deluge. This Glacial epoch seems gradually to have 

 ceased and then again commenced a gradual elevation of the surface 

 of the land above the sea, its outline becoming changed and modified 

 accordingly, as its submarine rock-formations would have been 

 subject to it, until its condition eventually became such as we now 

 see it, with marine channels separating the British Islands, the Isle 

 of Wight, and others from the Continent of Europe. 



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Manual of the Geology of India. — In the Geological Magazine 

 for August {ante, p. 375) attention was called to the omission of the 

 names of Messrs. H. B. Medlicott and W. T. Blanford, the authors 

 of the Manual of the Geology of India, from the title-page of the 

 new edition. We are gratified to learn that, the circumstance having 

 been brought to the notice of the Government of India, orders have 

 been given by the Government for a new title-page, with the names 

 inserted to be substituted for that first issued. 



International Geological Congress, Zurich. — At the instance 

 of Captain Marshall Hall, the Geological Congress at Zurich decided 

 upon appointing an International Committee to rejDort upon existing 

 glaciers. As soon as the constitution of this committee is completed 

 we hope to give details of the work it is to be charged with and its 

 members. 



The Geology of South Shropshire. — Fifty-nine pages of the 

 August Number of the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 

 are devoted to an admirable descrij^tion of " The Geology of 

 South Shropshire," by Prof. C Lapworth, LL.D., F.E.S., and 

 W. W. Watts, M.A., F.G.S., illustrated by twenty-three wood- 

 cuts and two plates. On this historic ground so many eminent 

 geologists have laboured and so much has been published, that 

 it is no small boon to Associates to be able to obtain, in so 

 small a space, so excellent an epitome of this interesting and im- 

 portant British area. The illustrations embrace a good Map and 

 a large number of sections, a capital table of the Lower Paleozoic 

 rocks of Shropshire, with the subdivisions proposed by various 

 authors from 1830 to 1894:, viz. : Sedgwick, Murchison, tbe 

 Geological Survey, Barrande, Lyell, Geikie, Barrois, Bigot, de 

 Lapparent, Lapworth, Callaway, Hicks, Nicholson, etc. The 

 Geologists' Association are to be congratulated upon securing for 

 their Proceedings so valuable a contribution, which is also descrip- 

 tive of the area that has formed the object of their long excursion 

 this summer, from July 29th to August 4th. 



