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the science, which are referred to in as many chapters under the 

 headings of Cosmical, Phj'siographical, Dynamical, and Topographical 

 Geology, Stratigraphy, and Petrography. It would be beyond our 

 province to refer to the numerous points of importance in each of 

 these subjects, which have been so thoroughly and lucidly stated by 

 the author; their intimate connection with the present generation of 

 geologists will cause them to be scanned with the liveliest interest. 



In the concluding chapter, Paleeontology, the science with which 

 Von Zittel's name will ever be associated, is treated in a somewhat 

 condensed form, and consists chiefly of short references to the 

 principal groups of fossil organisms and to the authors and works 

 in which they have been described. It would almost seem as if the 

 author's vast knowledge of the subject had restrained him from 

 venturing into details which might have proved overwhelming. 



We cannot finish this short notice without expressing our high 

 opinion of the value of this work to all geologists and to others 

 interested in the science of geology who desire to be acquainted with 

 its early history and the various stages it has passed through in the 

 course of its growth up to the present time. Tbe author is heartih'^ 

 to be congratulated on having successfully carried out this arduous 

 undertaking, the character of which can only be appreciated by those 

 who have some knowledge of the enormous literature which has to 

 be studied and digested for its preparation. 



III. — Indian Geology. 



1. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, vol. xxv : 



Geology of Bellary District, Madras Presidency'. By K. Bruce 

 FooTE, F.G.S., F.M.U. Superintendent, Geological Survey of 

 India. 8vo ; pp. xviii and 218 (1895), with a folding geologically 

 coloured map of the Bellary District (October, 1896). (Calcutta, 

 1897.) 



2. The Geology of Baroda State. By R. Bruce Foote, F.G.S., 



C.F.E.G.S., Geological Survey of India (retired), and lately 

 State Geologist, Baroda. Published by order of H.H. the 

 Gaekwar. 8vo ; pp. x and 194, with 3 folding maps (1897-98). 

 Eeceived December, 1899. (Madras, 1898.) 



n^HE author of these memoirs is one of the oldest and most 

 J_ experienced members of the Geological Survey of India, and 

 although he has retired some time from the staff, he has remained 

 resident in India.^ He has just sent us a copy of his memoir 

 on the Geology of the Bellary District in the Madras Presidency, 

 being the last piece of his official survey work, done some time 

 since. The map which accompanies this memoir is a good specimen 

 of modern chromolithography, well and clearly printed in colours, 

 which define alluvium, laterite-breccia, the Dharwar System and 

 haematites, the granitoids and gneisses, tbe steatite beds, granite 

 veins, trap-dykes, crystalline limestones, etc. 



* Undertaking the Geology of Baroda and of Mysore States for tlicir respective 

 native Governments. 



