322 Reviews — Delesse's and De Lapparent's Revite de Geologie. 



n. — Geological Eeseaechbs in China, Mongolia, and Japan, 

 DUKiNG 1862-1865. By Eaphael Pumpellt, 4to. pp. 144. 

 1866, Kine plates. Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 



THE present memoir contains a full Eeport of the author's obser- 

 vations, to which we have already alluded in a former Number 

 of this Journal (see Geological Magazine, Vol. III. p. 507.) 



The most important chapters are those which relate to (1), The 

 Geology of the Basin of the Yangtze Kiang ; (2) The Geology of the 

 Eoute from the Great Wall to the Siberian Frontier; and (3), On 

 the General Geology of China proper. Mr. Pumpelly gives a hypo- 

 thetical map of the structure of China, from which it appears that 

 more than two-thirds of the whole area of the country is occupied by 

 Coal-measures, which, yielding both Anthracite and Bituminous coal, 

 have been extensively worked for ages, and appear, from the Plant- 

 remains, to be of Mesozoic date. 



The six characteristic plants, figured on Plate ix., resemble those 

 of the European Oolitic Flora, and differ from •the Indian and 

 Australian, in the absence of the genera Phyllotheca and Glossopteris. 

 The names of figs. 4 and 5, on the plate, and also in the text (pp. 

 122-3) appear to have been reversed. 



Chapter IX. contains Notes on the Geology of the Island of Yesso, 

 and Chapter X. is devoted to a list of all the useful minerals found in 

 China, with their localities, and in the Appendix is given analyses 

 of Chinese and Japanese Coals by Mr. J. A. Macdonald, of Yale 

 College. 



ni. — Babrande's Bohemian Cephalopoda. Cephalopodes Siluriens 

 de la Boheme. Prague et Paris, 1865-1867. 



THE Text of this great work has now appeared. The two volumes 

 of plates, previously published in 1865, were noticed in the 

 Geological Magazine, Vol. III. p. 32. The present volume contains 

 the description of 447 specific forms, belonging to 16 genera, ar- 

 ranged under the families Goniatidce and Nautilidce, and is only the 

 first part of the studies of M. Barrande on the Silurian Cephalopoda, of 

 Bohemia. The second part will include the genus Orthoeeras, and 

 other straight shells which can be associated with this type, either as 

 sub-genera or distinct genera, such as Gonioceras, Endoceras, Tretoceras. 

 M. Barrande reserves for the end of this work his general observations 

 on the study of the Palaeozoic Cephalopoda, which will no doubt be 

 treated by him in a similar manner to that which has rendered his 

 study of the Silurian Trilobites so exceedingly valuable to Palseon- 

 toloscists. 



IV. — ^Eevue de Geologie pour les Annees, 1864 et 1865. Par 

 MM. Delesse et De Lapparent. Paris, 1866. 



THIS useful work has now arrived at the fourth volume, and fills up 

 a lacuna much wanted in France, as it comprises a general 

 resume of the most important works published duriag the preceding 



