378 Reviews — J. E. Lee's Note-Book of a Geologist. 



successfully among the Devonian rocks. In previous years the two 

 friends had been fellow-labourers on the geology of the North of 

 England. Mr. Lee attended the first meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion at York, and in 1837 published conjointly with Mr. W. H. 

 Dikes, F.G.S., a paper on the Geology of Nettleton Hill, in Lincoln- 

 shire (Mag. Nat. Hist. Nov. 1837). A model of the district was 

 also made, and a plaster-cast of it sent to the Geological Society of 

 London.^ Mr. Lee reprints this paper, which is illustrated by two 

 plates. 



The present woi'k, which is really a " retrospect of a life's work 

 in geology," is chiefly made up of lithographs of sketches from the 

 author's note-book, commencing in 1829, and carried on with some 

 breaks to 1880. These are accompanied by descriptive notes, for 

 the most part brief, and a number of woodcuts. The illustrations 

 being jolaced in chronological order, there is naturally no system. 

 The majority of them are diagrammatic sections, some are pictorial ; 

 but not a few appear too meagre to deserve a place in the collection, 

 being no doubt of personal interest to the author, and such as might 

 be drawn on a black-board to illustrate a lecture, but which, taken 

 with the brief descriptions given, do not convey sufficient informa- 

 tion to justify their publication. Plate xxxi. Kaised beach, near 

 Hope's Nose, might, with a little more detail in the drawing, have 

 been made a more instructive diagram : while Plate xxxiv. showing 

 joints in the Exeter (New Eed) Conglomerate is rather perplexing 

 for want of more natural delineation. Plate xii. Junction of the 

 Lias and Old Eed, near Liswerry, includes representatives of the 

 Eheetic Beds (undistinguished, it is true, when the section was 

 made in 1854), but their indication would have been useful to the 

 student. The junction is said to be of Lias and Old Eed Sandstone 

 — but are not the lowest beds marked " Eed Marl " the Keuper ? 



Plate Iv. Slannie Quarry, north of St. Fagans, marked "Lias on 

 Permian," shows no New Eed rocks, nor have Permian strata been 

 determined in the area. Plate cxx. " Contortions in Drift, etc., near 

 Old High," should, we presume, be Old Hithe, between Eunton and 

 Weybourn. 



Mr. Lee introduces us to many sections in Scotland. There is a 

 good diagram of Ardtun Head, Mull (Plate xlvi.) — a spot which 

 is not very easy of access, for, as Mr. Lee remarks, " We had, in 

 the first place, to cross the whole of the island of Mull in a fierce 

 rain, and slept at Bunessan. Early the next morning the walk from 

 this place to Ardtun Head was anything but pleasant, from the im- 

 mense quantity of water which had fallen and thoroughly soaked the 

 moorland district. . . . The only way of examining the section 

 was by descending a sort of crack or chink, which was not particu- 

 larly agreeable, with the roaring waves in sight below, but, neverthe- 

 less, it was accomplished, and amply repaid the trouble and risk." 

 Other sections in Ireland are described, and Mr. Lee takes us to 

 many instructive geological localities on the continent. 



1 These are referred to in Prof. Judd's paper on the Lincolnshire Wolds, Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xidii. p. 228. 



