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B. — Titles of Papers, Bearing upon Geology, read in other 



Sections. 

 Section A. — Physical Science. 

 Professor Everett. — (1) Report of Committee on Underground Tem- 

 perature. (2) Synopsis of all previous Reports of this Com- 

 mittee. 

 Professor Schuster. — Report of Committee on Meteoric Dust. 

 Professor Balfour Steioart. — On a Supposed Connexion between the 



Heights of Rivers and the Number of Spots on the Sun. 

 G. H. Darwin. — On an Estimate of the Earth's Rigidity. 



Section B. — Chemical Science. 

 Professor Divers and MarachiJca Shimose. — On the Occurrence of 



Tellurium and Selenium in Japan. 

 Professor von Baumhauer, — On the Application of the Diamond to 



Mineralogical and Chemical Analysis. 



Section D. — Biology. 



W. S. Duncan. — Evidence as to the Scene of Man's Evolution, and 

 the prospects of proving the same by Palseontological Discovery. 



W. Pengelly, F.B.S. — Prehistoric Remains in the Deposits of the 

 Bovey Basin, South Devon. 



Professor Boyd Dawkins, F.B.S. — The Light thrown by the Explora- 

 tion of Caves on the Conquest of Britain. 



Section E. — Geography. 

 J. Thomson. — On the Geographical Evolution of the Tanganyika 



Basin. 

 Professor V. Ball. — On the Identification of certain Ancient Diamond 



Mines in India. 

 M. Pierre de Tchihatchef. — The Deserts of Africa and Asia. 



Section G. — Mechanical Science. 

 J. Clarke HawJcshaw. — The Channel Tunnel. 



la IE "v I E "v^ s. 



I. — Tabular View of the Geological Systems, with their 

 Lithological Composition and Pal^ontological Remains. 

 Especially adapted for Students preparing for the Royal Military 

 Colleges of "Woolwich and Sandhurst. By Dr. E. Clement. 

 (London : A. Swan Sonueuschein & Co., 18b2.) 



WE are sorry that we cannot endorse the opinion expressed by 

 the author of this work in his preface that it " will be found 

 of great use to both masters and pupils" : its errors, both of omission 

 and commission, are so numerous that any utility which such a work 

 might otherwise possess appears to us to be entirely destroyed. lu 

 the some dozen pages on Stratigraphy, for instance, we find no 

 mention of the Pre-Cambrian rocks of England and Wales, nor 



