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plants,” “injurious mammals,” “detrimental birds,” “injurious 
reptiles,” ‘noxious insects,” “injurious molluscs,” and other 
noxious forms of life, and when feeding on carrion. So also of 
harmful Birds, which destroy useful creatures, their young or their 
egos, or when eating the parasites hurtful to obnoxious animals. 
The relations of Birds to different industries, also their habits, 
seasons, value as food, esthetic value, and economic classification, 
are all considered. Numerous figures of Birds and their various 
prey are freely inserted in the descriptions. 
Part IIT. treats of Economic Geology. The Iron-ores are de- 
seribed by R. D. Irving (pp. 613-636). The late Moses Strong 
wrote the Chapter (for the most part) on Lead and Zinc-ores 
(pp. 637-655). Prof. T. ©. Chamberlin has contributed the 
remaining Chapters—‘‘ Economic Suggestions as to Copper, Silver, 
and other ores” (pp. 656-662); on “ Building Material” (pp.663- 
677); on the “Soils and Subsoils of Wisconsin ” (pp. 678-688) ; 
and on “ Artesian Wells” (pp. 689-701). A short Note on the 
Geodetic Survey of the State, and its progress, is given at p. 7U2, 
and plate xi. is a map in illustration. 
The good Index (pp. 703-725) is well worthy of this excellently 
useful volume. 
Containing much that is of interest to Botanist, Ornithologist, 
and other Naturalists, this volume is also very useful to the Geo- 
logist and Mineralogist. By the Geologist the many figures of 
fossils, and the highly suggestive hypothetical maps of the North- 
American land in the several periods of the Huronian, Potsdam, 
Trenton, Niagara, and Hamilton formations—and again during the 
First and Second Glacial Epochs—will be fully appreciated. We 
cordially thank the Scientific Staff and the State Authorities of 
Wisconsin for this and the other volumes of their carefully-worked 
Survey of the State. 
The Student’s Handbook of Physical Geology. By A. J. JUKES- 
Browne, B.A., F.G.S. 8vo. Pp. xu, 514. London: George 
Bell and Sons. 1884. 
ELEVEN years have now elapsed since the second edition of Jukes’s 
‘School Manual of Geology’ was prepared by his nephew, the 
author of the present work. Now the School (or Student’s) 
Manual has, we are informed, been allowed to fall out of circu- 
lation, and the ‘Student’s Handbook of Physical Geology’ in a 
measure takes its place, dealing with a portion of geological science 
under the headings of Dynamical, Structural, and Physiographical 
Geology. The Paleontological and Historical sections are left to 
form another volume. 
The work before us, although differing from it in arrangement, 
is a capital introduction to the more elaborate treatise by Prof. 
A. H. Green, a new edition of which was issued in 1882. We trust 
that Mr. Jukes-Browne may complete the second portion of his 
work more speedily than has been the case with Prof. Green; and 
