Reviews — Prof. A. von Lasaulx — Aios Irland. 119 



Localities and Horizon. — Shale above the No. 1 Limestone of the 

 Mid-Lothian Carboniferous area at Fernie-hill, Gilmerton, near 

 Edinburgh; Cousland and Darcy Quarries, near Dalkeith, and 

 numerous other localities in the Lothians and Fife. 



Collector, Mr. J. Bennie. 



6. Htalonema, sp. — As supplementary to the localities given by 

 the Messrs. Young for Hijalonema parallela, M-'Coy, in their in- 

 teresting paper on that form (Annals Nat. Hist., Nov. 1877), I can 

 afford the following in the East of Scotland where the " rope" may 

 be obtained in fine condition, viz. Petershill and Galabraes Quarries, 

 near Bathgate ; Tartraven Old Quarry, near Linlithgow ; Charles- 

 town Quarry, near Inverkeithing ; Eoscobie Quarry, near Dunferm- 

 line ; Laddedie Quarry, near Cupar ; Airfield, near Cousland by 

 Dalkeith. From two other localities we have similar "rope "-like 

 bodies exposed on the surface of some weathered shale which appear 

 to differ from the typical H. parallela in certain particulars. They are 

 of considerable length, forming long undulate bundles, the rods being 

 far finer than in H. parallela, quite hair-like and apparently retaining 

 their size throughout the whole mass in a much more constant man- 

 ner than in the described form. I have not yet seen sufficiently 

 complete examples of ff. parallela to say whether this is only a 

 portion of an example of that species or a distinct form. I had, how- 

 ever, provisionally labelled the specimens in question R. Youngi, after 

 Mr. J, Young, F.Gr.S., who has been chiefly instrumental in working 

 out the affinities of the long-known Serpula parallela, M'Coy, and 

 as such I shall keep them until further evidence is acquired. 



Locality and Horizon. — Hillhead and Whitfield Quarries, near 

 Macbiehill Station, shale above the No. 1 Limestone, Lower Carboni- 

 ferous Limestone Group. 



Collector, Mr. James Bennie. 



E/E'VIIB^WS. 



I._Atts Irland. Von Dr. Arnold von Lasaulx. Mit 26 

 Abbildungden in holzschnitt, 1 Karte von Irland, und 1 

 Tafel in Lichtdruck. (Bonn, 1878.) 



IN the summer of 1876, Dr. von Lasaulx, in company with his 

 colleague, Dr. Ferdinand Eoemer, of the University of Breslau, 

 paid a long-meditated visit to " the Green Isle," and in the hand- 

 some volume before us we have the recorded impressions of one of 

 the travellers, not only on the physical and natural history of the 

 country, but on its inhabitants and institutions. It is certainly 

 highly to the credit of the author, and illustrates his industry in 

 observing the scenes around him, and in collecting information from 

 every available source, that within the space of a three-weeks' toui* 

 he should have succeeded in making himself so fully acquainted 

 with the scenery, physical features, and geology of the country, 

 together with the specialities of its inhabitants. As regards the 

 latter, we think he is on the whole unduly depreciate r3% and scarcely 

 does justice to the great strides which art and civilization have 



