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marls, the former of whicli, at one point called the Devil's Slide, 

 become massive beds, and, having resisted weathering more per- 

 sistently than their neighbours, they now stand out on the hill-side 

 like the huge ramparts of some old Cyclopean fortress. 



Secondly : Artistic studies of mountain scenery. Under this 

 head we would place "Moore's Lake (pi. i.). Head of Bear Eiver, 

 Uintah Mountains," a beautiful and wild little lake-scene, with 

 borders of dark pines. PI. vi., "Laramie Yalley — from Sheep- 

 head Mountains," which, with its fertile tract bordering the stream, 

 and its distant and desolate hills, might pass well for a view on the 

 Jordan. PL vii., " Snow and Timber Line, Medicine Bow Moun- 

 tains," is a fine piece of pine-forest with bare mountains beyond, 

 very wild and lonesome to linger in. PL xiv., " Lake at the Head 

 of Bear Eiver, Uintah Mountains," is another wild and weird spot, 

 unrelieved by a trace of humanity. Perhaps if we should choose 

 the most exquisite photograph — that which a lover of mountain 

 scenery and an artist might agree to admire for its beauty of com- 

 position and perfect harmoniousness of arrangement is pi. xxv., 

 "The Wasatch Eange of Eocky Mountains — from Brigham Young's 

 Woollen Mills, Salt Lake Valley." Turning over these plates many 

 times, we come back always to this exquisite piece of composition, 

 which certainly deserves the first place of merit in the whole work. 



We should like to make copious extracts from Dr. Hayden's ad- 

 mirable descriptions, and to speak of the engineering photographs 

 and the sensation ones, such as the " thousand mile tree," etc., but 

 space does not permit. We therefore heartily commend the book 

 to the English public. Its novelty is not confined to its excellent 

 illustrations of a country upon which but very few human eyes have 

 yet looked ; the text is nearly all published now for the first time, 

 and written in a most pleasing and instructive manner. No library, 

 aiming at securing the best books of the year, should be without it ; 

 and those who cannot individually afford to indulge in so grand a 

 work for themselves, shoiild recommend it for the public libraries to 

 which they subscribe. We cannot but look upon Dr. Hayden's work 

 as a great success. 



n. PALiEONTOGRAPHTOAL SoCIETT. VOL. XXIV.^ IsSUcd for 1870. 



January, 1871. 



THIS volume, which well sustains the high character of the 

 publications of this Society, contains : — 



1. The Flora of the Carboniferous Strata. Part II. By E. W. 



Binney, F.E.S., F.G.S. pp. 33-62. Six plates. 



2. The Cretaceous Echinodermata. Vol. I., Part IV. By Thomas 



Wright, M.D., F.E.S.E., F.G.S. pp. 137-160. Ten plates. 



3. The British Fossil Brachiopoda. Part VII., No. IV. By Thomas 



Davidson, F.E.S., F.G.S., etc. pp. 249-397. Thirteen plates. 



4. The Eocene MoUusca. Part IV., No. 3 (Bivalves). By S. V. 



Wood, F.G.S. pp. 137-182. Five plates. 



^ "We noticed vol. xxiii. (issued for 1869) in tlie Geo. Mag., 1870, Vol. VII., pp. 97-100. 



