124 Bevieivs — Geological Society's Journal. 



details, enlarged ; and with tliem are several copies of sketclies by 

 former observers, to complete the history of the whole. 



m. — The Quarterly Journal op the Geological Society, Vol. 

 XXIII. Part I. (No. 89, February 1, 1867.) 



COSMOPOLITAN, as usual, the Geological Society's Journal 

 comprises memoirs and notices of facts from many parts of 

 the world. First, Professor Huxley describes some bones of large 

 Dinosaurian Eeptiles, from South Africa. The Euslcelesaurus, so 

 called, because he had good legs to stand on, had a femur nearly 

 three feet long ; another siach reptile is termed the Orosaurus. Both 

 are from " Mr. Bain's Stormberg Beds," of the Stormberg, near 

 Aliwal, and probably higher in the geological series than the Karoo 

 beds, with JDicynodonts. Second, From Australia, the Eev. W. B. Clarke 

 sends an account of all the fossils of Secondary Age (Jurassic), that 

 he has seen or heard of; and, in a postscript to his paper, he adds 

 further evidence of Glossopteris JBrowniana being really Paleozoic. 

 Third, Dr. Duncan, chiefly by means of a fine series of corals 

 collected by Mr. Charles Moore, in South Wales, compares the beds 

 beneath the Lias in Britain, with their equivalents elsewhere, 

 and defines them as the " Infra-lias," divided into — a. (Upper), the 

 Southerndown, Sutton, and Brocastle limestone, etc. ; h. (Middle), 

 Ammonites-planorbis Zone, etc. ; c. (Lower), Avicula-contorta, or 

 Rhfetic series. It is a pity to see, throughout this memoir, on the 

 Infra-lias Coals of South Wales, the word " Astrocoenia " mis-spelt. 

 Fourth, Mr. H. Woodward follows with a bibliographic, classifica- 

 tory, explanatory, and descriptive pajDcr on the Xiphosures — that is 

 Limulus, Belinurus, Hemiaspis, Bimodes, Pseudoniscus, Exa'pinurus, 

 and a new genus Prestwichia ; their relationship to Eurypterus and 

 Pterygohis is especially treated of. Fifth, Dr. Duncan describes 

 some Cretaceous Echinoderms brought from Moimt Sinai, by the 

 Eev. H. Holland. Sixth, Mr. Hawkshaw, on the geology of a part 

 of Egypt. Seventh, Mr. J. Curry, on the Drift of the North of 

 England, gives useful facts. Eighth, Mr. J. W. Flower has found, 

 near Thetford, in Norfolk, some prehistoric flint instruments of the 

 same form and fashion as some from St. Acheul, in France, as the 

 great ugly woodcuts strongly show. 9. Lastly, (excepting some 

 miscellaneous matter), Professor Williamson describes a well- 

 figured Cheirotherian foot-print from Cheshire, which shows evident 

 marks of a true scaly skin. 



In this varied group of observations many will find much to learn, 

 and with regard to " Homotaxis," in particular, the reader will find 

 materials for a-rave consideration. 



IV. — Meteorites, Aierolites, and Falling Stars, By T. L. 

 Phipson, Dr. Sc. &c. 8vo. pp. 240, 1866. London: Lovell 

 Eeeve and Co. 



THE author of this little work has endeavoured to bring together, 

 in a popular form, the latest observations that tend to explain 



