214 Notices respecting New Boohs. 



2. Reconnaissance of Leech Eiver and Vicinity (auriferons) ; by G. 

 M. Dawson. 3. The Mines and Minerals of British Columbia 

 (Gold, Coal, Lignite, Iron, Silver, Copper, &c.) ; by G. M. Dawson. 

 4. Jurassic fossils from the Iltasyouca Eiver, British Columbia ; 

 by J. F. Whiteaves. 5. Coal-fields of Vancouver and neighbouring 

 islands, and the Tertiary rocks of Sooke Bay, &c. ; by James 

 Eichardson ; with coloured map and sections. 6. Geological Ee- 

 search north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior ; by Eobert 

 Bell. 7. The Goderich Salt Eegion ; by T. Sterry Hunt. 8. Geo- 

 logy of the Counties Eenfrew, Pontiac, and Ottawa, with their 

 iron-ores, apatite, and plumbago ; by H. G. Vennor ; with coloured 

 map. 9. The Slate-formations and general Geology of Charlotte 

 Co., New Brunswick; by G. F. Matthew. 10, Lower Carboni- 

 ferous belt, including the Albertite and its shales &c, in New 

 Brunswick; by L. W. Bailey and E. W. Ellis; with map and 

 sections. 11. Geology of part of Cape Breton, with notices of the 

 coals and metals (including gold) found in the vicinity ; by Hugh 

 Fletcher ; with coloured map. 12. Additions to the Insect fauna 

 of the Tertiary beds at Guesnel, British Columbia ; by Samuel 

 Scudder. 13 and 14. Notes on Eocks and Minerals ; by B. J. 

 Harrington and Christian Hoffmann. 



A comprehensive Index completes this volume, which is full of 

 important information, interesting in every branch of geological 

 research — physiographic, stratigraphic, palseontographic, petrogra- 

 phic, and mineralogical, — so much so, indeed, that the mere list of 

 main subjects alluded to above, must indicate to any one that 

 veteran geologists will see many of the old classic regions of North- 

 American geology greatly elucidated by modern research, and 

 rising students will have to congratulate themselves on difficulties 

 having been removed from their paths, and a very wide and clear 

 field opened in many directions for their own researches. To the 

 political and social economist the explanation and mapping of the 

 soils, structure, and mineral products of the great Canadian Domi- 

 nion is necessarily of immeasurable importance ; and the good 

 useful work brought to general comprehension in this Eeport is 

 therefore an Imperial benefit. 



Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales. 

 Illustrated by References to other Provinces of Australia. By the 

 Eev. W. B. Claeke, M.A., F.R.S., F.O.S., Sfc. Sfc. Fourth 

 Edition. 8vo. Pp. 165. Eichards, Sydney ; Triibner, London, 

 1878. 



"Well worthy of being recorded among the early race of Geologists, 

 who worked out their views of the science as presented by the 

 phenomena observed, and defined by the general knowledge with 

 which they had enriched their natural genius, the late "W. B. 

 Clarke was one of those who were led by special taste to cultivate 

 the natural-history sciences before schools and colleges provided 

 means of definite instruction in these matters. His first geological 

 observations were published in an early series of the Magazine of 



