360 Reviews—Scenery and Geology of Devonshire. 
It is satisfactory to learn that the Rt. Hon. the Secretary of State 
has sanctioned an increase in the graded lst of gazetted officers, and 
the creation of a special post of chemist. The temporary posts for 
Mining Specialists have been abolished, in order to permit the 
appointments of permanent officers with a knowledge of mining. 
in order to assist in the development of the mineral resources of 
India, Mr. Holland visited during the year certain metallurgical and 
chemical works in England and Ireland. 
Attention is drawn to the occurrence in India of highly aluminous 
laterites or bauxites that may prove to be valuable as a source of 
aluminium. Various other ore-deposits and economic products are 
referred to. 
Investigations have been commenced with the view of supplying data 
on the problem of denudation, by determining the amounts of silt and 
dissolved salts carried into the sea by the larger rivers of India, and 
observations with this object were made on the Indus river. 
Mr. E. Vredenburg, who was last year appointed Paleontologist to 
the Indian Geological Survey, has devoted attention to the fossils of 
the Lower Tertiary formations; Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed has com- 
pleted an examination of the Devonian fossils collected in the 
Northern Shan States; and Professor Carl Diener has dealt with 
the collections of Muschelkalk fossils. 
In Petrology assistance has been given by a former member of the 
staff, Dr. T. L. Walker, now Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology 
in the Toronto University. 
Field-work was carried on in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in 
Baluchistan, Burma, Central India, and Kashmir, and the results of 
many interesting and important observations are summarized. 
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I.—Tue Scenery and Grotocy or DervonsHien. 
Tae History or Devonsurri Scenery: An Essay in GuocrapHrcan 
Evorturion. By Arraur W. Craypren, M.A., Principal of the 
Royal Albert Memorial College, Exeter. 8vo; pp. vill, 202, 
with 48 illustrations. (Exeter, J. G. Commin; and London, 
Chatto & Windus, 1906. Price, 10s. 6d. nett.) 
THE Grotogy or Dervonsoire. By W. A. E. Ussuer, F.G.S8. 
Victoria History of the Counties of England. Devonshire, vol. i, 
pp. 48. (London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1906.) 
Tue Hitts anp Vauteys or Torquay: A study in Varztey-Drvetor- 
MENT AND AN Expranation or Locan Scenery. By A. J. Juxss- 
Browne, B.A., F.G.8.  8vo; pp. vill, 104, with 7 plates (pictorial 
views), and 12 maps and diagrams. (Torquay: published by the 
Author, Floriston, Torquay, 1907. Price 3s. 6d.) 
O those who have been accustomed to wield the hammer, there can 
be little doubt of the popularity and attraction of that branch of 
geology which deals with the sculpture of the earth’s surface. The 
