Reviews — Trubner's Literary Record. 177 



fluence on tlie Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Land Currents " is the title 

 of a book, about to issue from the press, by Mr. Catlin, the well- 

 known American traveller and Ethnographist, whose descriptions of 

 the habits and haunts of the North American Indians will ever be 

 associated with his name. From the extracts given of the author's 

 discoveries we anticipate a more wonderful story than that of a 

 voyage through the Grand Canons of the Colorado Eiver.^ 



Mr. Catlin has discovered the source of the Gulf Stream under the 

 Eocky Mountains ! but we will not anticipate. 



III. The third important work noticed at length in " Triibner's 

 Eecord " is by James Fergusson, F.E.S., " On Tree and Serpent 

 Worship, or Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India, in the first 

 and fourth centuries after Christ ; from the Sculptures of the 

 Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati." This grand work, pre- 

 pared under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in 

 Council, formed the subject of a most delightful lecture by the author, 

 delivered before the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science at Norwich in August last, and subsequently before the 

 members of the Eoyal Institution, Albermarle Street. This is 

 another magnificent contribution to Indian literature in particular, 

 and to Ethnology in general. 



III. — Pkooeedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society. Vol. 

 III. Nos. 7, 8 and 9. September to December, 1868. 



THE Geological articles contained in these numbers consist of 

 short notices of excursions made to Dundry Hill and to 

 Dundas, near Limpley- Stoke, where the members had the oppor- 

 tunity of examining the Middle and Upper Lias, the Sands, and 

 the Inferior Oolite. 



There is also a paper by Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.G.S., entitled 

 " Geological Notes from Norwich." But the author is evidently 

 " out of his element." He states that the Eed Crag is the oldest 

 of the Pliocene beds, forgetting the Coralline Crag, which is seen to 

 underlie it in several parts of Sufiblk ; and says, that at Bramerton 

 he " picked up numbers of the little Potamides so well known in 

 the Isle of Wight." We have never found any such specimens in 

 this locality, nor anywhere else in the Norwich Crag ; neither have 

 we before heard of their being so met with. Without denying the 

 possibility of such specimens being derived, as Mr. Stoddart appears 

 to think, we would refer his Potamides to the Cerithium punctatuvi 

 or some other form common to the Norwich Crag. 



Mr. Stoddart places the Bridlington Crag, and the Chillesford 

 Clay, between the Eed Crag and the Norwich Crag. But in the 

 section at Bramerton the Clay may clearly be seen overlying the 

 Norwich Crag, and the Bridlington Crag is regarded by Mr. S. V. 

 Wood, Jr. as much newer ; he places it above the Lower Drift. 



' See Bates's Illustrated Travels (Cassell & Co., Part I., p. 8). 



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