Reviews — Geology of Counties of England and Wales. 179 

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Geology of the Counties op England and of North and South 

 Wales. By W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S., etc. Pp. 346. 

 (London, 1882 : Kelly & Co.) Price 8s. 



DURING the past six years Mr. Harrison has contributed excellent 

 geological sketches of most of the English counties to the local 

 Post Office Directories, published by Messrs. Kelly and Co. In these 

 sketches he gives an account of each formation, its fossils and the 

 economic uses of the rocks, together with notes on the scenery of 

 the country, and on other matters of geological interest. They have 

 now been reprinted with geological descriptions of those counties 

 not previously published, and with the addition of references to the 

 Natural History and Scientific Societies of each county, the Museums, 

 the publications of the Geological Survey, and the important works 

 or papers on Local Geology. The author has evidently bestowed 

 great labour upon his work, and although the sketches do not do 

 equal justice to every county, the information has been carefully 

 selected from original sources. Hence, with the bibliographical 

 references, the work will be a most useful guide to all who are 

 desirous of learning what they can of the stony structure and ancient 

 history of the English counties. If we find fault at all, it is that 

 the more important papers of the earlier geologists are seldom men- 

 tioned in the lists, as, for instance, those of Sedgwick on Cumberland 

 and Westmoreland ; those of Sedgwick and Murchison and of Godwin- 

 Austen on Devonshire ; of Buckland and Conybeare on Somerset- 

 shire ; while we miss the name of Prestwich in the Shropshire list, 

 and that of Binney in the Lancashire list. Fitton's great work on 

 the Beds between the Chalk and the Purbeck Limestone should have 

 been mentioned in the list on page xxvii ; the only other reference 

 we have found to this work being on p. 217 in the list of works on 

 the Geology of Rutland. Most of the older geologists, however, are 

 mentioned by name, and it is only because undue prominence appears 

 to be given to later writers that we have remarked on the subject ; 

 for Mr. Harrison has always made most generous acknowledgment 

 of the sources of information to which he has been indebted. 



The work contains 106 illustrations, comprising pictorial views, 

 sections, fossils, and flint implements. The sections are mostly 

 borrowed from the Geological Survey publications, as stated in the 

 preface. Particular references to the works from which they are 

 taken is an omission that may be supplied in a future edition of the 

 work. 



Hitherto, no attempt has been made to combine in one volume 

 separate accounts of the geology of our counties, although a geologi- 

 cal atlas of the country was published about twenty years ago by 

 Reynolds. This, if brought up to date, would form a useful com- 

 panion volume to that which has been so well executed by Mr. 

 Harrison. 



