518 Revieivs — Proceedings Bristol Naturalists^ Society. 



y. — Eevue de Geologie pour les Annees 1873 et 1874. Par 

 MM. Delesse et De Lapparent. (Paris, 1876.) 



THE French Geological Eecord has now reached the twelfth 

 volume, which is carefully edited, and as full of interesting 

 notices as the publications of previous years. Mainly intended for 

 French geologists, the references and abstracts of papers bearing on 

 the geology of France are more restricted than those of other 

 countries. The matter, which includes notices of the more important 

 papers published during the years 1873-4, is arranged under litho- 

 logical, historical, geographical, and dynamical geology ; special 

 attention having been paid to the works on the metamorphism and 

 modification of rocks. Besides a resume of the chief geological 

 memoirs, the review contains numerous unpublished analyses of 

 rocks, either made in private, or in the public laboratories, and also 

 special communications of interest from different authors. These 

 give additional value to the volume, and render it not only useful to 

 France, but a necessary work of reference for both English and 

 American geologists. 



YI. — Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society. New 

 Series, Yol. I. Part III. 1876. 



THIS third part of the New Series of Proceedings completes the 

 volume, which in size and subject-matter will bear very favour- 

 able comparison with the Proceedings of other local Natural History 

 Societies. It numbers in all 506 pages, and is well illustrated with 

 plates and woodcuts. The improvement over the old series is, we 

 believe, largely due to the energy of Mr. E. B. Tawney, F.G.S. 



In this part, Mr. Stoddart continues his account of the geology of 

 the Bristol Coal-field, treating of the Carboniferous Eocks — the Car- 

 boniferous Shales, the Mountain Limestone, Millstone Grit, and Coal 

 Measures. Although so much has been written upon the physical 

 structure of this district, the palaeontology has hitherto by no means 

 received adequate attention, so that the lists of fossils furnished by 

 Mr. Stoddart form a most valuable addition to our knowledge. 



Mr. Tawney contributes some useful and suggestive notes on Prof. 

 Eenevier's Geological Nomenclature and Table of Sedimentary Eocks; 

 he has also taken up the vexed question of the age of the Cannington 

 Park Limestone, and both his personal observations on the rock and 

 the fossils he has obtained lead him to advocate its Carboniferous age. 



Mr. J. G. Grenfell describes and illustrates in two well-executed 

 plates some Carboniferous Encrinites from Clifton and Lancashire. 



Accounts are recorded of excursions to Wells and Glastonbury, to 

 Ilminster, and to the Yate Eocks ; and the volume concludes with 

 an obituary notice of William Sanders, whose loss to local students 

 of science is particularly felt. 



