890 Scientific Intelligence. 
The writer in his Exploring man goer hacen (1849), on New 
South Wales, sustained the view that their age was half way be- 
tween those extreme Ss, or # Pantie n, and thie is adopted by him in 
the last edition of his Manual of Geckigy (1874, p. 370). The ab- 
sence of Tertiary rocks from all of Eastern Australia is ace counted 
e 2 De Ds 
8. Geological Survey of Brazil. see C. F. Hartt, “hosauly 
of the Cornell Daven. has been placed in charge of the 
Geological Survey of Brazil by the Emperor, It is reported 
that the survey is to be continued four years. Professor Hartt’s 
previous explorations in Brazil, first in connection with the Thayer 
=e dition, have eminently fitted him for the work. 
Geologische Raleoter mast auf Reisen im Kavkusse. von H. 
oe 138 pp. 8vo, with one chart. Moscow, 1875.—Prof. Abich, 
who has long been investigating the country of the Caucasus, here 
North Caucasus Jurassic Coal formation; the rah a 
Riaation of Tschegem ; and the Glaciers of the northern side 0 
and 53 feet at its nottbeent teri contains numerous mari 
shells, the most of which are ‘ew of the ae seas, = a 
few belong some degrees farther north. The ised beach 18 
antiquus and £, pr emi, pis ot per species of Hgwu 3, Cervu 
Bos. Prof. Prestwich closes his paper with a Seoheiibe ee aie 
geographical oe foes which the mevcnite were ma . 
. Geol. Soc., Febr. 1875, p. 2 i. 
11. Another New York oe —A skeleton of a eee + 
has been found at Lisle, near Binghamton, New York, and is el 
exhumed a the Museum of the Cornell Universi ity. Roca 
12. Microscopical Structure of Rocks, with plates 7, 85 a Laie 
itic and oe ve Ingenite Rocks of Yar- ce: be alien 
From the Proceedings of the Roy. Lrish Acad., an v ee il, — 
ese 
croscopic structure of the rocks referred to in the title. 
pres, searing a iste, bred, or created within or below,” 
paper, on the Microscope in Geology, by Mr. 
published in a eee Science poke w for Untoken 1867. 
Petr 
ente der aphie, v rr A. ¥ 
: Prof Min. Univ. ei oe pp- a ae. 187 5. ‘(Emil rail Strass).— 
