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The book, we may add, contains even more information about the 

 natural history and ethnology of the region traversed than it does 

 about the geology, and is written throughout in a very pleasant style. 



II. — The National Geological Surveys of Europe. By 

 William Topley, F.G.S., etc. (1885, pp. 20.) 



(Eeprinted, ■witb an Appendix, from the Report of the British Association for 1884, 

 by permission of the Council. Triibner & Co. Price &d.) 



THIS pamphlet is a reprint, with some additions, of the Eeport 

 read at Montreal and printed in the Geological Magazine for 

 Oct. 1884. Additional information is scattered throughout the 

 pamphlet ; some, which seem the most important, are given below. 

 The first Report of the Eussian Survey for 1885 gave a full notice 

 of the Eeport as printed in these pages, adding notes on the Surveys 

 of the United States, Canada, India, Japan, etc. 



Bohemia. — This is a section of the Austrian Survey, under the 

 control of Anton Fritsch ; the maps are those of the ■'' Neue Special- 

 Karte," scale 1 : 75,000, referred to in 1884. The text is included, 

 as "Geologische Abtheilung," in "Archiv der Naturw. Landesdurch- 

 forschung von Bohmen," with plates and extra maps on various scales. 



Hungary. — This Survey was established as a section of the 

 Austrian Survey in 1868, but was soon after made a distinct body 

 under the title " Konigliche ungarische geologische Anstalt ; " its 

 head-quarters and the place of publication is Budapest. But it is 

 in connection with the central institution at Vienna, and an abstract 

 of its work appears in the Verhandlung. 



The first director was Max von Hantken, who was succeeded in 

 1882 by Johann Bockh. The survey is done on the scale of 1 : 

 28,800. 



The publications date from 1871. These are in Hungarian, but a 

 German version is given in " Mittheilungen, aus dem Jahrb. k. u. 

 geol. Anstalt," dating from 1872. About 22 sheets of the map are 

 published. 



Belgium. — Before the establishment of the existing Survey 

 another had been in existence, conducted by a Committee of which 

 M. Jochams was president. It was founded, in 1878, under the 

 control of the " Ministere de I'interieur ; " this is stated on each 

 publication, which may thus be distinguished from the publications 

 of the existing Survey, the latter being headed "par ordre du 

 Gouvernement." 



About 20 maps were published (1879-81), each with text ; 18 

 were by 0. V. Ertborn and P. Cogels. Both Surveys have used the 

 same topographical map. 



Portugal.^ — Secgao dos Trahalhos Geologicos de Portugal (Lisbon). 

 — This survey was commenced in 1857 (as Commissao Geol. de 

 Portugal). It was reorganized with the existing title in 1869, under 

 the direction of Carlos Eibeiro ; he was succeeded, in 1883, by 

 J. F. N. Delgado. 



1 The first part of the serial publication of this Survey has just been issued — 

 " Comniunicafoi'S da Secgao dos Trahalhos Geologicos de Portugal,'''' tom. 1, fasc. 1, 

 1885 ; 8vo. Lisbon. Some of the papers therein contained had been previously printed. 



