238 Notices of Scientific Works. [April, 



Geology and Revelation : or the Ancient History of the Earth con- 

 sidered in the Light of Geological Facts and Revealed Religion. 

 By the Eev. Gerald Molloy, D.D. London : Longmans & Co. 

 1870. 8yo. Pp. 418. 



It is no small credit to our Established Church that some of her 

 best men have been also noted as our most able geologists. 



Buckland, Conybeare, Henslow, Whewell, Sedgwick, and many 

 others, have done credit alike to the Gown and to the Hammer. 



Nor haye the clergy of other denominations failed to furnish 

 illustrations of geological workers and writers. The Bey. Dayid 

 TJre, the Bey. Dr. John Fleming of the Scotch Church, and the 

 Bey. J. McEnery,* a Boman Catholic clergyman at Torquay, haye 

 largely aided in the promotion of geological science. 



The author of the present work is also a Catholic clergyman and 

 Professor of Theology in the Boyal College of St. Patrick, May- 

 nooth ; where, being engaged in expounding the eyidences of reyealed 

 religion, he met with difficulties in reconciling with them certain 

 geological phenomena and speculations. He therefore resolved to 

 make himself acquainted with the leading facts of the science, and 

 for this purpose consulted the works of our great geological masters. 

 He determined to consider the subject "in a candid and philoso- 

 phical spirit," being, however, " impressed with the conyiction that 

 no fact can be really at variance with revealed truth."' 



The results of his inquiry he offers to those who, feeling like 

 himself the necessity of it, have no time nor opportunity to pursue 

 such an investigation. 



In the present volume, Dr. Molloy treats of the bearing of the 

 great antiquity of the earth, with the history that is given in Genesis. 

 In a future volume he hopes to discuss the antiquity of man. His 

 work is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to an outline 

 of geological facts and phenomena. Contrary to the majority of 

 authors who have treated of geology and religion, Dr. Molloy dis- 

 plays a very good knowledge of geological science, and this sum- 

 mary, which is written in a similar style to Page's • Geology for 

 General Beaders,' can be read with advantage by those for whom 

 our manuals afford too much dry detail. It contains the essential 

 facts of geology, and is very agreeably written. 



The second part of the work, the conclusions of geologists, are 

 compared with the " truths of revelation." Dr. Molloy endeavours 

 to adapt the periods of geology to the six days of Genesis — a sub- 



* Mr. McEnery's name -will always be associated with the earliest exploration 

 of Kent's Cavern, and the finding of human remains (in 1824-5) associated with 

 hytena, &c, in undisturbed deposits beneath the stalagmitic floor of this now 

 historic cave. 



