414 Reviews — Our Scientific Journals. 



Mr. J. W. Judd's paper, " On the strata whicli form the base of the 

 Lincolnshire Wolds," deserves a special notice, which we jDropose to 

 give in a future number. Its author, evidently a capital field- 

 observer, has met with his proj)er recognition, being one of the few 

 successful candidates lately appointed to the field-staff of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of Great Britain. 



Mr. Boyd Dawkins has more to say about British Fossil Oxen ; 

 this chapter treats of Bos longifrons, which the author considers to be 

 a comparatively modern type and to be the ancestor of our small High- 

 land and Welsh cattle. Mr. Dawkins has also another paper, " On 

 BMnoceros leptorMnus of Owen," which he states to be synonymous 

 with the BMnoceros hemitcechus of Falconer, but not by any means 

 the same thing as the BMnoceros leptorMnus, of Cuvier. Can a 

 specific name given by one author be transferred to another, Mr. 

 Boyd Dawkins ? 



Sir William E. Logan, and Drs. J. W. Dawson and W. B. Car- 

 penter have more to say about new specimens of Eozoon, of which 

 they give illustrations in two well-executed plates. 



Mr. H. W. Bristow makes out a strong case against the retention 

 of the beds named by Mr. E. B. Tawney (Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc, 

 Vol. xxii., p. 69), " Sutton series," and " Southerndown series " as 

 composing a formation separate and apart from the Lias proper ; and 

 he shows (1) that there are not two series of beds, but only one ; (2) 

 that the paleeontological evidence proves this group of strata to be 

 true Lias from top to bottom. He considers the term Infra-lias to 

 be misleading, and recommends Sir Henry De la Beche's old nam© 

 "Lias Conglomerate" as distinctive and unobjectionable. 



The Eev. P. B. Brodie contributes two papers — (1) " On the 

 Purbeck Beds at Brill, Buckinghamshire, etc. ; " (2) " On the drift 

 in part of Warwickshire, and the evidence of Glacial action which 

 it affords." 



The two following papers appear only as abstracts : — (1) Mr. 

 Charles Moore, "On the Abnormal conditions of Secondary 

 Deposits when connected with the Somersetshire and South Wales 

 Coal-basins, etc.," and (2) Mr. E. Etheridge, "On the Physical 

 Structure of North Devon, and the Palseontological value of 

 Devonian Fossils," they will form, we understand, an extra 

 number, to be issued at a later date. 



A third paper, "On Subaerial Denudation, and on Cliffs and 

 Escarpments of the Chalk and the Lower Tertiary Beds," By 

 William Whitaker, B.A. (Lond.), F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of 

 England, a brief abstract of which is only given (p. 265 Quart.. 

 Journ.), will appear in full in the October and November Numbers 

 of the Geolo&ical Magazine. 



2. The Quahterly Journal of Science, No. XV., for July, con- 

 tains, among others, an article upon Mr. J. Beete Jukes and the Geolo- 

 gical Society, being a consideration of Mr. Jukes' recently-published 

 pamphlet, entitled "Additional Notes on the Grouping of the Eocks 

 of North Devon and West Somerset, with a map and section ;" 



