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our knowledge of the fish fauna in rocks whose yield of fish remains 

 has hitherto been extremely limited ; and zoologically inasmuch as 

 (1) one genus and several species are new; (2) one Lower Old 

 Ked Sandstone fish is present; (3) the occurrence of the Lower 

 Carboniferous types, Orodus, Paephodus, Fristodus. The author 

 made some remarks on the fish remains, and exhibited a table of 

 their stratigraphical distribution. 



IR E AT- I E "W^ S. 



L — The Geology of Central and Western Fife and Kinross. 

 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Scotland.) By Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., D.C.L., etc., Director-General. With 

 Appendix of Fossils by B. N. Peach, F.R.S. 8vo, cloth ; pp. x, 

 284. (Glasgow: printed for H.M. Stationery Office, 1900. 

 Price 5s. 6d.) 



rnmS well-printed memoir is in the main a description of the 

 _L geological formations which are represented in Sheet 40 of 

 the Geological Survey map of Scotland, which was published iu 

 1867. The ground was surveyed in part by the author, and in part 

 by Mr. H. H. Howell, Prof. John Young, Prof. J. Geikie, and 

 Mr. B. N. Peach, when Murchison was Director-General. It is not 

 surprising, therefore, that the nomenclature, especially of the igneous 

 rocks, has undergone considerable changes, noticeable when we 

 compare the tablets on the map with the table on p. 13 of the 

 memoir. Much additional information on the coalfields has, however, 

 in recent years been obtained by Mr. J. S. Grant- Wilson, and the 

 Director-General has himself revisited the area from time to time. 

 Consequently every effort has been made to bring the information 

 up to date by personal observation, and with the help of other 

 workers whose publications are listed in the Appendix. It is 

 needless to add that in point of style the memoir bears the 

 most favourable comparison with any previously published by the 

 Geological Survey. 



The country described is a highly important one, extending from 

 the Firth of Tay west of Tay bridge to the Firth of Forth at 

 Queensferry. It is composed chiefly of Carboniferous rocks and 

 Old Red Sandstone, with numerous interstratified and intrusive 

 igneous rocks. In the northern part is the Ochil chain, formed 

 mainly of hard lavas of Lower Old Red Sandstone age ; the central 

 part, in which lies Loch Leven, is hollowed out of comparatively soft 

 red sandstones forming the plains of Kinross and the Howe of Fife ; 

 and in the southern part there is again a belt of hilly ground, more 

 varied and broken than that in the north, and composed mainly of 

 Carboniferous rocks with hard eruptive sheets, which form the 

 Lomond Hills and other prominent heights. 



While perusing the very interesting Introductory chapter it would 

 have been useful to the reader to have had a small map depicting 

 the main outlines of the geology and topography, witli the names of 



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