424 Revieivs — LydekJcer's Indian Tertiary Vertehrafa. 



closely connected with living birds than with those of the Chalk 

 period which were also armed with teeth. 



Prof. Carl Vogt was the first to give a short description of the 

 head which is on the whole correct. 



There is no ' occipital crest' to the skull as mentioned by Prof. 

 Seeley (Geol. Mag. 1881, p. 455). 



The errors in description made by Vogt and Marsh arose from 

 the fact that they both saw the Berlin Archceoptenjx before it was 

 fully developed. Prof. Seeley saw only the photograph."^ 



II. — Text-Book of Descriptive Mineralogy. By Hilary 

 Bauerman, F.G.S., Associate of the Eoyal School of Mines. 

 8vo. pp. 400. (Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1884.) 



TN the previous part of this work, the Text-Book of Systematic 

 Mineralogy, it was my unpleasant duty as a reviewer, to point 

 out some very sei'ious faults : to-day my task is the infinitely more 

 agreeable one of stating that the part now issued is a very welcome 

 addition to the literature available for the students of our colleges 

 and schools. Mr. Bauerman's wide acquaintance, not only with 

 minerals as specimens, but with their principal localities and their 

 economic uses, has enabled hira to produce a work which is far from 

 being a simple compilation. The classification is a modern one, and 

 is virtually based on the crystallo-chemical system of Gustav Rose, 

 adopted in 1859 for the arrangement of the British Museum collec- 

 tion. As stated in the preface, the figures have been obtained from 

 the wood-blocks employed in Brooke and Miller's edition of Phillips' 

 Mineralogy, and are extremely well done. Misprints ai"e few and 

 far between, especially when one remembers the difficulty of correct- 

 ing the proofs of such a work. This text-book will meet with 

 deserved success. L. Fletcher. 



III. — Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Pal^ontologia 

 Indioa. (Series X.). Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary 

 Vertebrata. Imperial 4to. Vols. I. and II. complete ; and 

 Vol. III. Parts I. 11. and III. issued.'- 



1T is once more our pleasant task to congratulate Mr. Medlicott, 

 the Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, on the 

 success which has attended the work of the Survey over which he 

 presides during the past ten years, more especially in reference to the 

 magnificent series of publications which are issued under his auspices. 



^ Translated from the German by E. C. "Woodward. 



2 The following memoirs of Series X. Indian Tertiary and Post- Tertiary Verte- 

 brata, have appeared : — 

 Vol. I. pp. XXX. 300, pis. 50 {complete). 



,, pt. 1 (1874). Rhinoceros deccanensis, by E.. B. Footb, pp. 18, pis. 3. 



,, ,, 2 (1877). Molar teeth and other remains of Mammalia, by E. ' 



Lydekker, pp. 69 (19-87). pis. 7 (iv.-x.). 

 „ „ 3 (1878). Crania of Ruminants, by E. Lydekker, pp. 84 (88-171), 



pis. 18 (xxix.-xlvi.). 

 „ „ 4 (1880). Supplement to pt. 3, pp. 10 (172-181), pis. 3 (xxi. a, b, 



xxiii. a). - 



