332 Screntifie Intelligence. 
The volume contains much of great =_— to the science that 
would be here cited but for the limited spac 
7. Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas ; by 
Sir Josepu Darron Hooker, President R.S., ete., and Joun 
Batt, F.R.S.;—2with an A ppendiz including a sketch of 0 Geology 
of Maroceo; by Gzorce Maw, F.G.S., etc. 499 pp. 8vo. Lon- 
don: 1878. (Macmillan & Co.).—This volume contains an account 
of a as made by Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. Ball and Mr. Maw 
in 1871 to a region which, as the preface remarks, was then little 
better known to geographers than it was in the time of Strabo and 
Pliny. The general account of the journey, occupying the first 
348 pages, contains, besides incidents by the way, much informa- 
tion on the features, vegetation, and people of the country. It is 
followed by Appendixes on the Geography of the region, by John 
all; on its economic plants, a comparison between the Flora of 
the Canary Islands and of Marocco, and between that of Tropical 
Africa and of Marocco, by J. . Hooker ; on ;ahe Mountain Flora 
of two valleys of the Great Atlas, by J. Ball; on the Geolo ogy of 
the plain of Marocco and the Great Atlas, iy George Maw. 
i s of bowlders tanking the northern ea of 
the Atlas platens spread downward in great mounds and undulat- 
ing ridges from a height of 3 ‘900 feet to the borders of the plain 
beaches at Mogador “ which may po asib y c Thansporntcous 
with raised foahiie. on the coasts He Spain and Portugal.” 
slight subsidence of the coast-line is stated to be now going ov. 
8. Annual — of the State Geologist of New Jersey, bie asi 
1878. 132 pp. —The prominent feature of this Report 1s 
98 on the “ "Glacial and Modified Drift” of the State, vehi 
Lands” and “ Pine Lands.” It reas also of the soils of the 
as Se ye and their compositions, clay deposits, glass sand, ‘el 
the si cota of the State, and gives analyses 
of ome iron ores and lim 
Geological Baad 7 ‘187 6; an account of works on 
a a Mineralogy, and Paleontology, published during the 
ar; with supplements for 1874 and 1875. Edited by W 
mTaKER, B.A., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England. 
