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Reviews — Sorace B. TToodward's 



The Geology of England and Wales. A Concise Account 

 OF the Lithological Characters, Leading Fossils, and 

 Economic Products of the Bocks. With Notes on the 

 Physical Features of the Country. By Horace B. 

 Woodward, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England and 

 Wales. 8vo. pp. 476, with Chromo-lithographic Map and 28 

 Wood-engravings. (London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1876.) 



IF we may take the number of manuals and introductory works 

 on any branch of science as a test of its progress or of the 

 growth of popular interest in it, we may certainly feel satisfied that 

 Geology is keeping pace with the general advance of Natural 

 Science studies. 



But many geological manuals seem to be published merely to 

 complete a series of scientific hand-books, only reproducing the old 

 illustrations and classification, and often hardly offering any excuse 

 for the publication except that the work is condensed to some 

 number of pages uniform with the rest of the series. 



Chalk-pit at WMtlinghain, near Norwicli. (p. 287.) 



1. Chalk with flints (disturbed). 



5. Pebbly gravel and sand. 

 4. Laminated clay and shelly seam. 

 3. Sand and gravel, false-bedded. 

 2. Shell-bed and large flints. 



[Norwich Crag 

 Sands. 



At other times the notes of a student have been found so useful 

 to himself that he thinks there must be something new in his 

 method or illustrations, and immediately he offers his work to the 

 public. 



