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Sturgeons; and he concludes liis memoir by the description of two 

 new species of Platijsomus, one from the Permian of the Southern 

 Indian Territory, the other from the Coal-Measures of Mazon Creek, 

 Illinois. A. S. W. 



III. — The Story of the Hills : A Popular Account of Mountains 

 AND How they were Made. By Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, B.A., 

 F.G.S. (London, Seeley & Co., 1892.) 



POPULAE works on geology are rapidly multiplying, and it 

 becomes more and more difficult to devise any new method of 

 treatment of the subject. Mr. Hutchinson's little book, however, 

 is a pleasing novel version of the old story, interwoven with much 

 interesting information outside the geologist's sphere and illustrated 

 by very beautiful photographs of scenery. There are also numerous 

 extracts from Euskin's " Modern Painters," from Geikie's " Scenery 

 of Scotland," and from other well-known prose-writers and poets 

 that help to enliven the volume. Mr. Hutchinson's style is terse 

 and clear, without technicalities, and thus precisely adapted to the 

 general reader for whom the " Story " is intended. 



The first section of the book deals with mountains as they are. 

 The functions of mountains as barriers between races of men, as 

 retreats for conquered tribes, and as influencing climate, are treated 

 in succession. Mountain plants and animals are then discussed, 

 with special reference to the Alps of Central Europe. 



The second and larger section of the book is concerned with the 

 manner in which mountains were made, and is purely geological. 

 Mr. Hutchinson compares the making of a mountain with the 

 building of a cathedral, describing in succession the three processes 

 of " transportation, elevation, and ornamentation " of the materials. 

 Volcanic mountains also have a special chapter ; and the volume 

 concludes with some general considerations on the age of mountains. 



On all points the information is varied and well up to date, and 

 Mr. Hutchinson's little book may be recommended alike to the 

 school-boy naturalist and to the ordinary mountain-climber who 

 desires to know something of the nature of the peaks and passes 

 among which he spends his holiday. 



IV. — Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian 

 Museum, Cambridge. By Henry Woods, B.A., F.G.S. (Cam- 

 bridge, University Press, 1891.) 



THE Woodwardian Museum contains so large a series of fossils to 

 which reference has been made in published works, that a 

 Catalogue like the present will prove of much value to all who are 

 actively engaged in palseontological research. More especially is 

 this the case, since the Woodwardian Professor has full power to 

 exercise his discretion in lending the specimens under his charge 

 to competent investigators far from the University of Cambridge. 

 It is now possible to determine at a glance whether or not any 

 particular type or described specimen occurs in the Woodwardian 



