70 Scientific Intelligence. 
regions, by Mr. Judd. The article in the number for May treats of 
the igneous ejections preceding the elevation of the Alps, which 
commenced in the Permian and continued through the Triassic. 
The best exhibitions of the erupted rocks are seen near the Lake 
Lugano, on the borders of Switzerland and Italy, in the Southern 
Tyrol, and in the country about Raibl in Carinthia; and the author 
holds that they indicate that the same rocks occur beneath the Ju- 
rassic or other overlying beds throughout the Alpine region. the 
oldest (Permian)—the quartz-porphyry of Botzen, or a granite-like 
variety containing 66 to 76 p. ¢. of silica—covers an area of more 
than 1,000 square miles and constitutes mountain masses over 
9,000 feet high. It is largely covered by Triassic beds of great 
thickness. Eruptions of the Triassic period occur in the Southern 
Tyrol; the rocks have the composition of melaphyre, diabase and 
doleryte, but are often granitic in texture, and are called monzo- 
e 
many minerals produced in the eas iiitiearenics by the erupted 
monzonite; among them, epidote, garnet, spinel, vesuvianite, 
gehlenite, mica, biotite, wollastonite, anorthite, labradorite, ortho- 
clase, scapolite, monticellite, axinite, zircon, sphene, besides ser- 
pentine, thomsonite, chabazite, prehnite and series 
closely related to that from the ejected masses on Somma. 
3. Reliquiew Aquitaniee. Part xvii, Nov. 1875.—This num 
ber concludes the very valuable work of Larter and CuristTy 0B 
the “Archeology and Paleontology of Périgord, and the adjoit 
ing Provinces of Southern France,” issued under the editorial 
supervision of Prof. T. Rupert Jones, and published by Williams 
& Norgate, London. The number of quarto plates in the whole 
illustrations. i number adds to the information on the 
uman remains of Laugerie Basse, and concludes with notes 0? 
the Cari indeer) of Newfoundland, and comparisons 
the present time, whose remains have be 
the Quaternary of Great Britain, but also in the “ Diluvium : of 
the Oise near Chauny, and at Precy, and in that of the Saal 
