230 Reports and Proceedings — The Geologists' Association. 



reader on this side of the Atlantic who wishes to become acquainted 

 with the general geological features of the different districts traversed 

 by railways in the United States and Canada, so clearly and concisely 

 put before him. J. M. 



V. — Practical Geology. By W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S., etc. 

 Small 8vo., pp. 157. (London, Stewart & Co., 1878.) 



THIS is a very clearly expressed and accurate guide to the main 

 features of British geology, written with the object of tempting 

 junior students to learn the science as much as possible out of doors. 

 Descriptions of geological apparatus, and accounts of all the principal 

 formations, are given, with which are interspersed many notes in 

 explanation of phenomena to be observed. 



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The Geologists' Association. 



T a Meeting held at University College, on the 7th March last, 

 Mr. H. Goss, F.L.S., F.G.S,, etc., communicated a paper on 

 " The Insect Fauna of the Primary or Palaeozoic Period, and the 

 British and Foreign Strata of that Period in which Insect-remains 

 have been detected." 



After making some introductory observations, and alluding to the 

 rarity of fossil insects in the Palaeozoic rocks of the United Kingdom, 

 the author stated that on the Continents of Europe and America 

 fossils of this class had been met with more frequently, especially in 

 the Coal-measures, and that a few had also been obtained from the 

 Permian rocks of Saxony, and from the Devonian rocks of New 

 Brunswick, North America. 



The author then alluded to those geologists and zoologists who 

 had determined and described fossil insects from Palaeozoic rocks, 

 calling special attention to the writings and investigations of 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E.S., in England ; of Prof. Goldenberg, 

 Prof. Germar, Dr. Giebel, Prof. Oswald Heer, Dr. Dohrn, Herr 

 Eugen Geinitz, Dr. Geinitz, Prof. Van Beneden, M. Preudhomme 

 de Borre, M. Ch. Brongniart, and M. Coemans, on the Continent of 

 Europe ; and of Mr. S. H. Scudder, Dr. Dawson, Prof. Dana, 

 Prof. Leo Lesquereux, Mr. C. F. Hartt, and others, in America. 



The few fossil insects discovered in the British Coal-measures 

 were then enumerated ; they included a beetle and a locust from 

 Coalbrook Dale, three Orthoptera, described by Mr. Kirkby, from 

 the neighbourhood of Sunderland, and one insect of that order 

 from the Scotch Coal-measures, which had been described and 

 named by Dr. Henry Woodward. 



The Permian strata of Continental Europe, in which fossil insects 

 had been detected, were next noticed, and attention was called to a 

 remarkable fossil insect obtained from the neighbourhood of Birken- 

 feld, which belonged to an extinct order, and combined some of the 

 characteristics of the Neuroptera and Hemiptera, and was supposed 



