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panied with a neat hydro -geological map, plan and sections relating 

 to the geology and water-supply of Oxford, which was the real 

 object of the lecture. Still the subject is treated in a sufficiently 

 general manner to be equally applicable to other towns, tillages, 

 and mansions, similarly situated geologically, and where contamina- 

 tion of water must probably occur, as shown in the diagram 

 (figs. 1 and 2), where surface wells exist in close proximity to the 

 drainage of cesspits and other impure sources. '' At the same time," 

 says the author, "however practical the question of water-supply 

 may be in one aspect, the knowledge of the underground distribution 

 of water is, in its other bearings, not less essential to the theoretical 

 geologist." J- M. 



lY. — The Geological Eegord for 1874 : an Account of Works on 

 Geology, Mineralogy, and Palaeontology, published during the 

 Year. Edited by William Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S., of the 

 Geological Survey of England. 8vo. pp. 414. (London : 

 Taylor & Francis, 1875.) 



ENCOUEAGED by the success which has attended the '' Zoolo- 

 gical Eecord," ^ and urged on by the growing necessity felt by 

 geologists for some concise and handy book of ready reference for 

 the convenience of English students, such as German and French 

 scientific men have long enjoyed,^ a small band of disinterested and 

 earnest workers in geology, palseontology and mineralogy united 

 together in 1874, and, aided by a list of guarantors (whose function 

 has happily been a purely honorary one), they have issued to sub- 

 scribers of 10s. 6 J. a neat and clearly-printed large 8vo. volume of 

 414 pages of well-arranged matter, containing a brief summary of 

 more than 2,000 papers for 1874. 



The general editor is Mr. William Whitaker, who is an old soldier 

 at such tasks (having himself, single-handed, compiled and published 

 some most useful lists of works relating to special districts, as well 

 as being the author of several able Survey Memoirs) ? 



Mr. Whitaker is supported by Messrs. H. Bauerman, F. J. Bennett, 

 W. Carruthers,'- F. Drew,'- C. E. De Eance, E. Erdmann, E. 

 Etheridge, Jun.,^"'' Walter Flight, C. Le Neve Foster, A. H. Green,'-'"' 

 C. P. Gloyne, T. M. Hall, E. T. Hardman, F. W. Harmer, T. E. 

 Jones, E. L. Jack, G. A. Lebour,'- L. C. Miall,- H. Miller, E. T. 

 Newton, H. A. Nicholson,'- J. McPherson, F. W. Eudler,'- F.Eutley, 

 E. B. Tawney, W. Topley,^* and H. B. Woodward.'- 

 * Those marked with a * act as Sub-Editors. 



^ The " Zoological Eecord" was commenced in 1865, and has now attained 

 its tenth volume. 



2 The Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie und Geologie was commenced in 1830 ; 

 Poggendorfi's Annalen was begun at Leipsic in 1799, and has reached 233 volumes ; 

 Delesse and De Lapparent's Eevue de Geologie has reached 11 volumes. 



2 List and Supplement of Works on the Geology, etc., of Devonshire, 1870-72. 

 Trans. Devon. Assoc. List of Works on the Geology of Cambridgeshire (Woodwardian 

 Museum, 1873). The Geology of the London Basin (in part). Geology of Parts of 

 Oxford and Berks (in part). Geology of S. Berks and N.Hants (in part), and 

 Geology of Parts of Middlesex. Guide to the Geology of London, 2ud edit. 1875. 



