Miscellaneous Intelligence. 505 



geology and physiography of Korea. The first was published 

 in the same journal in 1903 and entitled "An Orographic Sketch 

 of Korea." This one presents the details of the geological obser- 

 vations made in three traverses across the southern part of the 

 peninsula. The general results are given in a summary with 

 geologic map and section of the route followed. These show 

 that the general trend of the formation lines is somewhat west of 

 south, following the axis of the peninsula. The central axis is 

 composed of an immense area of gneiss flanked in general by 

 schists and sandstones and including masses of eruptive and 

 intrusive igneous rock, granites, porphyries, breccias, etc. The 

 outlying island of Quelpart is volcanic and composed of basalt. 

 A contact facies of a great mass of a rock determined as por- 

 phyrite is described as a porphyritic plagioclase greisen and named 

 masanite. The plates present a large number of fine views of the 

 country explored. The whole fornjs a notable contribution to the 

 geology of eastern Asia. l. v. p. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Darwin and Modern Science : Essays in Commemoration 

 of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the 

 .Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of Species. 

 Edited by A. C. Seward. Pp. xvii, 595, with 5 plates. Cam- 

 bridge, 1909 (University Press). — Although it is " impossible to 



express adequately in a single volume the influence of 



Darwin's contributions to knowledge on the subsequent progress 

 of scientific inquiry," yet the papers here published together, 

 each by an expert and dealing with the present condition of his 

 own special field of work, form a most remarkable series of 

 essays. Such of the papers as were originally written in German 

 and French have been rendered into simple English, and the 

 work of the editor has been done with such thoroughness that 

 the whole series forms a continuous and uniform account of the 

 present state of knowledge in a great variety of scientific fields. 



The diversity of topics treated and the eminence of the con- 

 tributors will be seen from the following list of the twenty-nine 

 chapters : 1, Introductory letter to the editor from Sir Joseph 

 Dalton Hooker ; 2, Darwin's predecessors, by J. Arthur Thom- 

 son ; 3, The selection theory, by August Weismann ; 4, Varia- 

 tion, by Hugo de Vries ; 5, Heredity and variation in modern 

 lights, by W. Bateson ; 6, The minute structure of cells in 

 relation to heredity, by Eduard Strasburger ; 7, "The Descent of 

 Man," by G. Schwalbe; 8, Charles Darwin as an anthropologist, by 

 Ernst Haeckel ; 9, Some primitive theories of the origin of man, 

 by J. G. Frazer ; 10, The influence of Darwin on the study of 

 animal embryology, by A. Sedgwick ; 11, 12, The palaeontological 

 record : I. Animals, by W. B. Scott, and II. Plants, by D. B. 



