174 Reviews—Newton’s Forest Bed Vertebrata. 
furnishing, for the most part, details of a very local and far from 
interesting nature. 
Some of the newly ascertained facts concerning the Pliocene and 
Glacial beds of Norfolk have been communicated by Mr. Reid to 
the GronocicaAL Magazine (see Decade II. Vol. IV. pp. 800-808 ; 
Vol. VII. pp. 55-66, 238, 239, 548, 549), while earlier papers by 
Mr. John Gunn, Messrs. Wood and Harmer, the Rev. O. Fisher, and 
others, treating of the same subjects, have also appeared in former 
volumes of this MAGAZINE. 
Excellent diagrams of the cliffs were published by Samuel Wood- 
ward in 1833, and by Mr. 8. V. Wood in 1865; but these of course 
were exaggerated in outline, and on a much smaller scale than the 
very carefully drawn Section by Mr. Reid, to which we now call 
attention. Being on a true scale, the character of the contortions in 
the Contorted Drift may be well studied. This section is described 
in detail in the Memoir, and more briefly in the Explanation above 
mentioned: why this latter should be published in addition to the 
Memoir it is hard to say. 
The chief feature in Mr. Reid’s Memoir is the detailed account 
of the Pliocene beds shown in the cliffs: the notes are far more 
systematic than any previously attempted, while the organic remains 
obtained by Mr. Reid and Mr. A. C. Savin, of Cromer, have added 
very largely to our knowledge of the fauna and flora of the beds. 
Occasional woodcuts and a coloured plate give details which are not 
shown in the large sheet of sections. One very interesting chapter 
is devoted to the Climate, Physical Geography, and Natural History 
of the Newer Pliocene Period, and here Mr. Reid remarks that the 
most important feature in the scenery was the “Forest Bed” river, 
which in all probability was the same as the Rhine—for not only do 
the rocks found in the Pre-Glacial gravels support the view, but in 
the “Forest Bed” there is a distinctly southern land fauna contem- 
poraneous with an equally marked arctic marine fauna. 
The Glacial beds and their method of formation are treated of at 
some length, the author further explaining his views on the origin of 
the Contorted Drift, and its huge transported masses of chalk. 
Nor are the Alluvial deposits neglected, but their description 
occupies little space; the phenomena of Denudation are noticed in 
one chapter, and the concluding one is devoted to Economic Geology, 
the Soil, Road-metal, Lime, Brick-earth, Peat, etc., Mineral Waters, 
and Water Supply. 
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I.—Tue Verresrata or THE Forest Bep Series or Norrotk 
AnD Surrotk. By E. T. Newron, F.G.S., ete. [Memoirs of 
the Geological Survey of England and Wales. (London. 8vo. 
pp. 143, 19 Plates. Price 7s. 6d.). | 
HE fossils of the celebrated “Forest Bed” of Cromer are of 
very great interest to Geologists and Zoologists, for they belong 
