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Mineralogy and Geology. 121 
the grinding-beds are the same as those found in the Surface-period of 
Denmark and England. Pottery is abundant; not only spinning but 
12, Manual te lala - the Rev. Samozn Havanrton, M.D., F.R.S., 
Prof. Geol. Univ. of Dublin. 2nd ed., revised and co nsiderably enlarged, 
416 pp., 12mo, adoodess 1866. (Longm ans, Green, Reader, and Dyer.) 
—Prof Hau aughton has aimed to present in his Manual the general results 
geological investigation without many of its details. He commences 
> stage with the o oe n of the globe, and presents deductions as to the 
positive than the facts warrant, we commend the book as one that will be 
read with profit. But it appears to us better for the teacher, to use in 
connection with his other works on the subject, than for the pupil. The 
Deri takes strong ground esses the hypothesis of Lamarck and 
and 6 from the White soft clay of nearly the same age. They pertain to 
what Prof Hilgard calls the North Lignitic group. One species, the 
“mopsis Danai Lesq., is given in Dana’s Geology, from a drawing 
furnished the author by Prof. Lesions x. The other species are of = 
Magnolia, Asimina, Phyllites. Two of the plants of the genera 
Ren and Phyllites are refed to living species, ms the whole are 
relations to Miocene species. 
aa ne = ave close relations peci 
sd oem 
ges spond is, Waldheimia compacta, Beyrichia lithofactor ; 
the — anne Meckella to include as the typical species Naame 
Swallow (Orthisina striato-costata Cox), together 
Simardions Swallow, Productus eximius eae 
us occidentalis and S. pyramidalis Newberry. S 
- Jour, Sc1—Sucow Seuss, Vor, XLII, No. 150.—Jouy, 1867. = 
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