562 Reviews — Dr. F. Oswald — Geology of Armenia. 



General Secretary that of the Committee on Co-operation in 

 Geological Investigations. 



Mr. Sjogren, of Stockholm, gave an invitation for the eleventh 

 meeting of the Congress to take place at Stockholm, at the instance 

 of Messrs. Tornebohm and J. G. Anderson, President and Secretary 

 of the Swedish Committee. This invitation was gladly accepted, 

 and, after some congratulatory remarks by the President and others, 

 the Congress was declared closed. 



I^ :hi "V I E AAT s. 



I. — Geology of Armenia. 



A Treatise on the Geology of Armenia. By Felix Oswald, 



B.A., D.Sc. Thesis accepted by the University of London for 



the Degree of Doctor of Science. In two parts : I. Geological 



results of a journey by the author through Turkish Armenia. 



II. The Geological Record of Armenia. 8vo ; pp. ix, 516, maps, 



plates, and sections. London (printed at Dulwich by the author, 



and published by the author at lona, Beeston, Notts), October, 



1906. Price one guinea, net, 100 copies only printed. 



rilHIS is a remarkable book in more ways than one. It is no small 



JL feat to write a book on the geology of Armenia, which 



embodies all that has gone before, plus a vast amount of original 



research; but when the traveller and author deliberately sits down to 



set up his own manuscript, draw, print, and colour his own maps 



and sections, and turn out the five hundred and odd pages of 



a complete book, with the sole exception of the binding, it demands 



more than passing attention. 



Mr. (now Dr.) Oswald accompanied Mr. H. F. B. Lynch on his 

 second journey through Turkish Armenia in 1898. Mr. Lynch's 

 volumes appeared in 1901, and the delay in publication of 

 Dr. Oswald's book is due to the fact that he prepared many of the 

 maps, plans, and other illustrations for his friend's work, before finding 

 the necessary leisure to prepai"e his own. He acknowledges help 

 received from Dr. T. G. Bonney, Mr. R. B. Newton, Mr. G. C. Crick, 

 Col. F. R. Maunsell, and Col. G. S. Elliot, and these names, together 

 with the Bibliography (pp. 487-500) and the general treatise on 

 Armenian geology, show that the work has been sweeping and 

 comprehensive in character. 



The country dealt with lies between the Caspian and Black Seas, 

 including to the south the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and the lakes 

 Van and Urmi. The author's route, told in successive chapters each 

 geologically treated, was as follows: — Constantinople to Trebizond, 

 Trebizond to the Vavuk Pass, to Erzerum, to Khinis, to Tutakh, to 

 Akhlat, thence to the Tauric Heights, the Nimrud Volcano, Akhlat 

 to Sipan, to Khamur, to the Bingiil Cliffs, Bingol Volcano, Erzerum 

 to Trebizond. The observations made duiing this journey occupy 

 thirteen chapters, and the remaining ten chapters treat of the general 



