384 Correspondence — Rev. T. O. Bonney. 



Mr. Eandall equally objects to the section given by Mr. Jones 

 (Fig. 1, p. 206), purporting to illustrate his views. Mr. Eandall 

 says : In this section " Mr. Jones leaves out altogether the Upper 

 Coal-measures of which I had been speaking all along, but intro- 

 duces them in another (Fig. 2, p. 206), which he says represents his 

 own views." 



Between the two paragraphs quoted by Mr. Jones from the 

 Mining Journal, Mr. Eandall says, " The following sentence has been 

 omitted, which throws altogether a different light on the subject : — 

 ' At several places they, that is the Permians, may be seen over- 

 lying the younger members of the Coal-measures south of the Old 

 Coal Field, also the latter group where the younger are denuded.' " 

 — Edit. Geol. Mag. 



THE SUBMERGENCE OF IS. 



Sir, — There is a curious work on the subject of Mr. Lebour's 

 interesting paper,^ which, if it be unknown to him, he, with others, 

 may be glad to read. It contains a number of statements with 

 reference to the subsidence of Brittany, some of which are so startling 

 that one views them with a little suspicion. Perhaps the unwork- 

 manlike style of making references, too common in French books, 

 increases this feeling. The author maintains that in the thirteenth 

 century Jersey was yet united, or almost united, to France. The 

 book is " Les Mouvements de la Mer," by M. Quenault (Coutances, 

 1869. pp. 68). My attention was called to it by a review from the 

 pen of Mr. Whitaker in " Nature," vol. i., p. 381. 



T. Gr. BoNNEY. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



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 Geological Text-books, which have a very wide circulation ; he has 

 also published a very useful Glossary of Geological Terms. The 

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Eeeatum.— Geol. Mag. for July, p. 333, in Mr. Marshall Hall's 

 letter on " Terraces in Norway," for " Mo'ik Pors," read " Mork 

 Foss." 



1 Published ia the Geol. Mag. for July. 



