34 GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



Geologie a23pliqiiee aux Arts et a /'Agriculture, comprenant 

 VEnsemhle des Revolutions du Globe. Par MM. C. D'Orbigny 

 etA. Gente. pp.534. 8vo, Paris, 1851. With Woodcuts, and 

 an Engraved Table of the Geological Epochs illustrated by nume- 

 rous figures of Organic Remains. 



To meet the general demand of the numerous classes of readers and 

 intelligent inquirers, who are thirsting for the means of self-instruc- 

 tion, especially the industrial and agricultural communities, the au- 

 thors have prepared this work on geological science, rendering it as 

 clear, and as free from technicalities, as circumstances would allow. 



The general design of the work comprises three chief heads : — 

 1 . The study of geology and geognosy ; embracing the subjects con- 

 nected vdth the physical history of the earth, atmosphere, and waters, 

 and with the structure and composition of the earth's crust : 2. Geo- 

 logy applied to the arts ; treating of the rocks useful to man, whether 

 of igneous or of sedimentary origin ; and of the metalliferous and 

 the non-metalliferous minerals, economically applied : 3. Geology in 

 its relation to Agriculture ; under which head the authors consider 

 the vegetable soil ; its formation ; its principal elements, and their 

 influence on vegetation ; the classification of soils ; the agency of 

 light, air, heat, &c. on vegetation ; the hygrometric and other phy- 

 sical properties of soils ; and, lastly, the improvement of soils, or 

 the application of inorganic manures. 



The work is completed by the addition of a copious vocabulary of 

 scientific terms used in the work, which also serves as an alphabetical 

 index. Lastly, a general view of the stratigraphical relations of the 

 deposits of the several geological periods is exhibited in an engraved 

 tabular view of the Terrains, Formations, and Etages, chronologically 

 arranged and severally accompanied by figures of their characteristic 

 animals or plants. [T. R. J.] 



On a new species q/ Anthracotherium. 

 By Hermann von Meyer. 



[Jahrbuch K. K. Geolog. Reichsanstalt, 1853, No. 1. p. 165.] 



The lower jaw of an Anthracotherium was lately found in a piece of 

 brown-coal in the Barbara Mine, at Monte Promina, in Dalmatia. 

 A careful drawing of the specimen was submitted to Von Meyer, 

 who found that this fossil does not agree with any known species. 

 It is nearest to A. Sandhergeri, from the Westerwald, but differs 

 from it in the form of the last lower molars. Von Meyer names the 

 new species A. Dalmatinum. [T. R. J,] 



