180 Reviews — Prof. T. Rupert Jones s Geology. 



Alfcliough so recently instituted, the Survey has been attended by 

 practical results, by drawing the attention of capitalists to the re- 

 sources of the State, inducing large investments in Coal-lands, and the 

 taking of decided steps for the erection of several new blast furnaces for 

 smelting iron ; also for the building of glass-works at Indianapolis, 

 sand suitable for the manufacture of glass having been discovered by 

 the Geological Department in various localities of the State. 



From the information which has been furnished in this way to 

 manufacturers, it is believed that the State has already been benefited 

 more than ten-fold the cost of maintaining the Geological Survey. 

 {To be continued in our next.) H. W. B. 



IV.— Geology.— By Professor John Mokris, F.G.S., and Professor T. 

 EuPERT Jones, F.G.S. First Series. By Professor T. K. Jones, 

 F.G.S. 8vo., pp. 84. (London : John Van Voorst.) 



A FIRST instalment of this work, for which, by-the-bye, we have 

 anxiously waited for a long time, was published at the close 

 of last year. It is the work of Prof. Rupert Jones, and consists of 

 Heads and Synopses of Lectures on Geology, Mineralogy, and 

 Practical Geology, given at the Royal Military Staff and Cadet 

 Colleges, Sandhurst. 



The chief part of the little volume (pp. 58) is occupied by the 

 Heads of Lectures delivered at the Royal Military College, between 

 1866-1870. There are three Synopses of Lectures occupying twelve 

 pages, might not these have been amalgamated with advantage ? 



The volume is rather a Table of Contents to the forthcoming- 

 volumes, where, no doubt, each subject mentioned will be fully 

 dwelt upon. 



Teachers will find this book very handy in the arrangement of 

 their lectures. There is much also that the student will find useful 

 in preparing for an examination. Geological terms, the physical 

 characters of rocks and minerals, are briefly explained. The chief 

 points connected with Physical Geography and Paleeontology are 

 indicated, and the Table of the Geological Formations in the British 

 Islands will be found very useful. The copious index, moreover, gives 

 facility of reference. A list of geological books and papers would 

 have been a valuable addition, some authors are indeed mentioned, 

 but without references to their works. 



I^Ei:poI^Ts .^is^jd i^iaociBEX^in^ca-s. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 I. — Geological Society op London. — The Annual General Meet- 

 ing of this Society was held on February 17th, 1871. Jose^Dh 

 Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary 

 read the Reports of the Council, of the Library and Museum Com- 

 mittee, and of the Auditors. The general position of the Society, 

 as shown by the state of its finances and the continued increase in 

 the number of Fellows, was said to be very satisfactory. 



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