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Buckman treats of the subsoils in relation to water-supply, their 

 adaptation to particular crops, the flora of the district, and other 

 subjects ; he also gives analyses of different rocks, and tables showing 

 their relative yield of several crops and their comparative value per 

 acre. A complete series of such memoirs would form a valuable 

 ' Manual of the Agricultural Geology of Great Britain.' 



' The Geological Magazine ' has lately been remarkably good, and 

 the Original Articles have been more generally interesting than 

 before ; three of the most recent papers are brief geological guides 

 to the districts of which they treat, and have doubtless been useful 

 to geological tourists during the past summer : these are, Mr. 

 Mackintosh's "Notes on the Surface-geology of the Lake- district," 

 Mr. Peach's paper " On Traces of Glacial Drift in the Shetlands," and 

 Mr. Davies's account of " A Walk over the Ashbeds and Bala Lime- 

 stone near Oswestry." Professor Owen's paper on Miolophus, a new 

 genus of Mammal allied to Hyracotherium, from the London clay of 

 Sheppey, has, of course, a more lasting value. Professor Phillips's 

 note on Oxford fossils is interesting, and Mr. Guppy's paper on the 

 Tertiary deposits of Trinidad is unusually so, as the author infers 

 that a much colder climate prevailed in that region during or near 

 the time of our Glacial Period. 



With great sorrow we are again obliged to record the death of an 

 eminent palaeontologist. Dr. S. P. Woodward, author of the well- 

 known ' Manual of Becent and Fossil Shells,' and of many original 

 memoirs on conchological and geological subjects, expired at Heme 

 Bay on July 11, at the early age of 43. We must refer our readers 

 to the August number of the ' Geological Magazine ' for an obituary 

 notice of this talented naturalist, from whose loss palaeontology in 

 England must long suffer. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society. 



The August number of the ' Quarterly Journal ' includes a much 

 larger share of the Society's Proceedings than its predecessor. Of 

 the eleven papers contained in it, four treat of the Post-tertiary 

 deposits of Scotland, namely : — 



Mr. T. F. Jamieson " On the History of the last Geological 

 Changes in Scotland." 



Dr. J. Bryce " On the Order of Succession in the Drift-beds of 

 the Island of Arran." 



Dr. J. Bryce " On the Occurrence of Beds in the West of Scotland 

 beneath the Boulder-clay." 



Rev. H. W. Crosskey " On the Tellina calcarea Bed at Chappel 

 Hall, near Airdrie." 



Mr. Jamieson's paper is remarkable as a compilation, and in- 

 herently valuable from its containing a large number of new facts, 

 and a classification of them and of those previously known. The 

 author distinguishes in the Post-tertiary beds of Scotland the re- 



