Geology. 317 



(Peronella), the coral (Coelosimlia) and the brachiopods Tri- 

 gonesmus and Magas, new to Australia but common to the old 

 world, indicating a homotaxial relation with the Indian system. 



The Geology of the Country between Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, 

 by C. S. Honman (Bulletin 56, 80 pp., 31 tigs., 2 n^s, 1914), deals 

 with an interesting series of Pre-Cambrian rocks, including a 

 stratum of crushed conglomerate. 



A Geological Reconnaissance of a portion of the Murchison 

 Gold Field, by H. P. Woodward (Bulletin 51, 103 pp., 50 figs., 5 

 plates, 1914), contains a description of the physiographic features 

 and a brief account of the Weld range with its remarkable deposits 

 of almost pure hematite estimated at " 26 to 27 million tons," at 

 present valueless because of its inaccessibility and its distance 

 from coal fields. 



Miscellaneous Reports (Bulletin 59, 252 pp., 50 figs., 23 plates, 

 1914) embraces 18 short papers on economic subjects by members 

 of the Survey staff. h. e. g. 



2. Physiographic Geology of West Australia, by J. T. Jutson 

 (Western Australia Geological Survey, Bulletin 61, 1914, 229 pp., 

 119 figs., 3 plates). — Chapters embodied in economic reports of 

 the West Australia Survey during past years have served to call 

 attention to the extremely interesting physiographic features of 

 that state and to create the desire of the reader for a systematic 

 account of the western half of the continent along the lines of 

 Griffith Taylor's admirable work on "The Salient Features in the 

 Physiography of Eastern Australia." Topographic maps are 

 lacking and portions of the state remain unexplored, and Mr. 

 Jutson's report is therefore properly described as '*' An Outline." 

 The plan adopted is, however, well chosen and the literature 

 intelligently used, with the result that a book of high educational 

 value has been produced. A foreigner interested in Western 

 Australia would naturally begin his studies with this bulletin. 

 The character of the book is indicated by the following partial 

 list of contents: Rainfall and Vegetation, Outline of Geology, 

 Physiographic Divisions, The Great Plateau, Drainage Systems 

 and their Development, Origin and Growth of Salt and Dry Lakes, 

 Mountains, Sunk Lands, Coastal Plain, Rock Weathering. 



H. E. G. 



II, Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The Social Problem: A Constructive Analysis; by 

 Charles A. Ellwood. Pp. xii, 255. New York, 1915 (The 

 Macmillan Company). — Professor Ellwood's writings are always 

 characterized by a breadth of vision coupled with a profound 

 distrust of any single principle of human life or any all- 

 inclusive formula for explaining society. In the book in hand 

 he undertakes to analyze the social problem, by which he means 

 the problem of " human living together." He deprecates the 

 attention commonly devoted to " social problems " as disconnected 

 and unrelated phenomena, capable of solution separately. The 



