132 Reviews — H. P. Woodward — Western Australia. 



Survey of the Territories (1890), which has already been noticed: 

 (see Geol. Mag. 1891, p. 280), It includes the (Oligocene) Tertiary 

 Insects of Florissant, South Colorado ; those of the White River, 

 West Colorado ; Eastern Utah ; and Wyoming. 



From Quesnel, British Columbia, Dr. G. M. Dawson has con- 

 tributed numerous insects ; and Dr. G. J. Hinde from Clay-beds, 

 near Toronto, Canada, has added materials for 29 species. 



Alas ! but few of those who, like the author, have devoted a 

 life-time to palceontology, ever have the good fortune to see, at the 

 end of thirty years, their scattered brochures reprinted as a pair of 

 handsome quarto volumes ! To many of us, the process would 

 certainly not be feasible, commercially. To most it would hardly be 

 a scientific gain. Compared with man's best eiforts after all, how 

 much more enduring is the Epitaph which Nature has engraved upon 

 the rocks to the Memory of the humble but long-lived Cockroach ! 



Diving into our Editorial waste-paper basket to-day we drew 

 forth the following lines, grimy with soot, and inscribed : — 



" Manchester, Brit. Assoc. 1887. 

 " In times Carboniferous Sciulder has shown. 

 That the Cockroach was gaily then holding his own ; 

 T)o you think that in oiir case we too may last, 

 If we stick to the Cook and the Kitchen as fast ? " 



(The second verse has, alas ! been torn off, and is lost to science.) 



H. W. 



V. — Geological Survey of Western Australia. Annual General 

 Eeport for the Year 1890. By Harry Page Woodward, 

 F.G.S., etc., Government Geologist. 8vo. pp. 53. (Perth, 

 W.A., 1891.) 



THE last Report of the Government Geologist in Western 

 Australia, was noticed in the Geological Magazine for October, 

 1890 (p. 468) ; and we then printed a Table of the Strata, which 

 need not here be repeated, as no additions or alterations are necessary. 



In the present Report Mr. Harry P. Woodward gives a list of the 

 fossils which, up to the present time, have been found in Western 

 Australia. Some of these have been described in the Geological 

 Magazine, as previously noticed. 



Among the Cambrian fossils, the record of Olenelhis Forrestt, 

 associated with Salterella Hardmani, is of especial interest. Although 

 this Olenellus was identified with a query by Mr. A. H. Foord, yet 

 further knowledge of the genus, as lately published by Mr. C. D. 

 Walcott, leaves no room to doubt that the query may be cancelled ; 

 and indeed this element of doubt has been omitted from the Report. 

 With regard to the Carboniferous and Devonian rocks it is remarked 

 that " there seems to be an unbroken series of beds, the Lower 

 Carboniferous fauna gradually merging into the Devonian " — a 

 matter of considerable interest, as this is undoubtedly the case in 

 Europe and North America. 



