Reviews — Morton's Progress of Geological Research. 87 



IV. — The Peogress of Geological Eesearch in Connection with 

 THE Geology of the Country around Liverpool. 

 By G. H. Morton, F.G.S., etc. 



[Two Annual Addresses to the Liverpool Geological Society. Sessions XI. 

 and XII. 1871.] 



("^ EOLOGICAL literature is so vast and so diffused that all attempts 

 ]r to bring together and enumerate the bibliography of particular 

 districts are most welcome. We not only want lists of papers on the 

 geology of every British county and of particular districts, but also 

 lists of writings on special Palseontological subjects, whether zoolo- 

 gical or botanical ; in fact, a sort of Ormerod's Index applied to all 

 publications bearing on British geology is desirable. 



Before writing a paper one has (at any rate one ought) to study 

 the literature of the subject, in order to give due credit to those 

 observers who have previously published communications on a similar 

 topic. To find out what has been written on a particular subject is 

 often a difficult task, therefore we are glad to see such papers as Mr. 

 Morton's, wherein the bibliography of a district is given. In this 

 paper Mr. Morton enumerates the geological writings in reference 

 to the Carboniferous, Triassic, and Post-Pliocene strata of the country 

 around Liverpool, giving also some criticisms upon them. 



Mr. Whitaker has done a great deal of work in the same direction. 

 We had occasion recently to notice his list of works on the Geology, 

 etc., of Devonshire ; and another list was, we believe, sent by him 

 to the British Association at Edinburgh. 



We may take this opportunity of mentioning to Lancashire geo- 

 logists the title of a paper which we came across while looking up 

 some communications on the Geology of Somersetshire, which does 

 not appear in Mr. Morton's lists, a fact not to be wondered at consider- 

 ing the publication in which it occurs. It is this : "Eemarks upon 

 the inferior strata of the earth occurring in Lancashire, with some 

 miscellaneous observations arising from the subject." By Dr. 

 Campbell. With a coloured geological map of the county, by Dr. 

 Wilkinson. In vol. xii. of " Letters and Papers on Agriculture, 

 Planting, etc. Selected from the correspondence of the Bath and 

 West of England Society," '- 1810, p. 85. 



This is probably one of the earliest attempts to illustrate the 

 geology of the county of Lancashire. H. B. W. 



V. — Eevue de Geologie, pour les annees 1867 et 1868. Par MM. 

 Delesse et Lapparent. (Paris, 1871.) 



THE publication of the seventh volume of the Eevue de Geologie 

 was delayed in consequ.ence of the troubles to which Paris was 

 subjected during the late war. Like the previous volumes, it evinces 

 the same care on the part of the editors in selecting and abstracting 

 the most important papers and memoirs bearing on geology published 

 during 1867 — 68, arranged under the sections of Physiographical, Li- 



' The publication now carried on, as a second series, is the Journal of the Bath 

 and West of England Agricultural Society. 



