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Miocene Beds, though perhaps in placing too much importance on 

 slender characteristics he does not stand alone ; and he is glad to 

 observe that Mr. Carruthers is doing the synthetic to other botanists' 

 analytic subdivision of fossil species. 



2. Brief Notes on the Precious Stones and Pearls of Scotland, By 

 A. M. Cockburn. 



Although poor in the more precious gems, Mr. Cockburn remarks 

 that Scotland can boast of her jaspers, pebbles, agates, pearls, and of 

 fine specimens of quartz ; the moss agates are pecidiarly suitable for 

 certain styles of setting. Cairngorm stones are found in great 

 abundance in the matrix of the granite on the top and sides of the 

 Cairngorm Hills, in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. 



Amethysts and garnets may be ranked among the Scottish gems. 

 The former is now becoming scarce ; the latter is found in large 

 quantities at Elie Point, and along the sands on the east coast 

 of Fife. 



Fine and large specimens of pearls are found in the rivers Teith, 

 Forth, Dee, Don, Earn, Tay, Tweed, and the rivers of Eoss and 

 Sutherlandshire. 



3. Eemarks on Two Flints from Jubbulpore, Central India, and 

 on the Flint Implements discovered there by the late Lieut. D. 

 Swiney, E.E. By James Haswell, M.A. 



The principal part of the collection (numbering 977 pieces) is now 

 in the British Museum, and was described by Mr. John Evans, F.E.S., 

 F.S.A., in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries, 19th of 

 January, 1865. 



I. — Underground Life ; or. Mines and Miners. By L. Simonin. 

 Translated, adapted to the present state of British Mining, and 

 edited by H. W. Bristow, F.E.S. Illustrated with 160 engrav- 

 ings on wood, 20 maps geologically coloured, and 10 plates of 

 metals and minerals in chromolithography. 8vo. pp. 622. Lon- 

 don : Chapman and Hall. 1869. 



THIS is a work of a popular-scientific character, somewhat similar, 

 both as regards the style in which the subjects are treated and 

 in the kind of illustrations, to the volumes of Hartwig, Figuier, and 

 other writers of that class. 



The woodcuts are excellent specimens of art, but in many instances 

 the subjects chosen for illustration appear to us quite unnecessary to 

 the text. Such are the pictures of a stable in a mine, a consultation 

 in a mine, a Californian gold-finder prospecting the ground, miners at 

 prayer, etc. ; while the pictures of explosions and accidents in mines 

 might with advantage have been dispensed with, as they are emi- 

 nently calculated to give one the horrors. We were somewhat sur- 

 prised to find M. Simonin remark that "in no instance has any 

 merely fanciful design been admitted." Under " fanciful," we 

 should certainly include the woodcut of the Indian miner of Lake 



