Reviews—Dr. Otto Kahn’s Die Urzelle, ete. 85 
Peninsular Rocks. Supposed Marine Equivalents. 
Inpran. EvRoPEAN. 
CHENOZOIC. High-level laterite... Nummulitic «.. Middle Eocene. 
(2 f Upper Deccan traps ? Lower Eocene. 
: < | Middle traps ... ... Arialur evel Here Upper Chali: 
& < Lower traps ... Trichinopoly .... Lower Chalk. 
Z aeecere nine or La- Bagh beds ae 
MESOZOIC. 3 meta ... Utatar pe Upper Greensand. 
a mia and Ka- 
‘A { Jabalpur and Cute TROL ATE eae Tesi 
Mahadeva and Raj- Chari. and(-s> Jurassic. 
a | mal alee. 6 hese, 2. vse ) Pachham... 
LE 
Ce Banc eteca! css “ede ane «. Triassic. 
PALAOZOIC { 4 | Damida : 
& (Talchir eve oss cee cee ove |» Upper Paleozoic. 
The geological horizons of the Tertiary and Upper Mesozoic beds 
may from this be assumed to have been very approximately deter- 
mined, but considerable hesitation must yet be felt as to the real 
position of the Lower Gondwana formations, and “ nothing is known 
of the age of the Vindhyan and older rocks.” 
The correlation with each other of the several formations found in 
different parts of the Extra-Peninsular area has been worked out to 
a lesser degree, partly because they are separated by countries inac- 
cessible to Europeans, as Nepal and Affghanistan, and partly because 
some of the tracts they occur in are topographically less known. 
Two tables of the Extra-Peninsular formations are given in the 
Manual, the first being a list of “the representatives of different 
geological horizons in various tracts,” the second “an attempt to 
exhibit the probable correlation of the rocks in the different parts of 
the area, so far as the information available extends.” Both these 
tables are here given, as they are of great value and interest. Where 
an asterisk is affixed to the name of a formation, it shows it to be 
unfossiliferous, and a note of interrogation that the position now 
assigned is doubtful. (See pp. 82-84.) R. B. F. 
(To be continued in our next Number.) 
Il.—Die Urzette Nesst pEM Bewsis pass GRANIT GNEISS SER- 
PENTIN TALK, GEWISSE SANDSTEINE AUCH BasaALt, ENDLICH 
METEORSTEIN UND METEOREISEN AUS PFLANZEN BESTEHEN: DIE 
ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE DURCH T'HATSACHEN NEU BEGRUENDET. 
By Dr. Orro Kaun. 8vo. pp. 71, and 80 Tab. (Tiibingen, 1879.) 
HE author on the title-page of this pamphlet affirms that he adds 
new facts in favour of the Evolution theory, since he pretends 
herein to prove that Granite, Gneiss, Serpentine, Talc, certain 
Sandstones, also Basalt, and finally Meteorites and Meteoric Iron, 
consist of Plants. In the preface he further claims to have settled 
all questions as to the origin of the earliest rocks, and specially of 
the older volcanic rocks. 
In the following sketch of his views we will leave our readers to 
judge of the value of his statements, merely premising that inverted 
commas signify passages translated almost literally. He commences 
