84 Reviews—Page’s Earth’s Crust, Sc. 
General Literature. He here puts his best foot foremost, and gives 
us a specimen outline. On the whole his plan is well executed, but 
we are surprised to find some slips which show an unexpected 
carelessness. Thus Stgillaria and Stigmaria are always referred to 
as distinct organisms ; Diatomacee are characterized as animalcules ; 
and £quisetum is spoken of as an ally of Hippuris. But such slips 
are unimportant compared with Mr. Page’s strange confusion about 
the lowest stratified rocks; for while he accepts Murchison and 
Geikie’s determination of the Hebridean rocks as Laurentian, he 
still retains the Metamorphic strata as an azoic series inferior to the 
Cambrian, and unites the Laurentian strata to the Cambrian, though 
separated by the whole of his ‘Metamorphic system,’ because the 
fossils are closely akin or identical! We wonder where he found 
this information. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE Gero Loaists’ AssocIATION, vol. i. No 10, 
1863-4. 
HE communications made to this Association may be grouped 
as—Ist, those in which the authors go over old ground, point- 
ing out, more or less clearly, the various subjects of interest; and 
under this heading the visits made by the Associates to special locali- 
ties, and to geological museums, are not the least in importance ; 
and, 2ndly, those, less numerous, which offer original information. 
Of the latter group, Mr. J. Rofe’s paper ‘On some Recent Marine 
Shells found in the Excavations for Railway-works near Preston,’ is 
the best in the present number of the Proceedings. Its object is to 
enquire with regard to Lancashire and the Penine Chain, ‘whether 
the upheaval of the parts most distant from the sea has not been con- 
tinued even since the elevation of that nearer the sea: that is to say, 
that Mottram has been further elevated since Preston emerged ;_ and, 
indeed, whether that process may not be going on in our own times.’ 
Mr. A. Bott’s account of the strata exposed by the excavations for 
the ‘ Southern High-level Sewer Main Line,’ and Mr. C. Evans’s paper 
‘On the Geological Distribution of Pitharella Rickmani, are useful 
additions to the history of the ‘ Woolwich Beds.’ Mr. C. Evans leans 
to the opinion that the Pitharella is allied to the Ampullaride, rather 
than to the Limneide, and that the known variations in its form are 
not of specific value. Mr. C. Evans’s paper, also, on the sections 
now being exposed by railway-cuttings near London is well-timed, 
and likely to influence the Associates and others to visit the works 
and collect facts before the opportunities are altogether lost. 
REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS. 
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THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Tue following communications were read, June 22, 1864 :— 
1. ‘On the Fossiliferous Rocks of Forfarshire and their contents.’ 
By James Powrie, Esq., F.G.S. 
Referring to his former paper for a detailed description of the 
