176 Recent Literature. [ February, 
A French committee for the propagation of the doctrines 
of evolution, is hesitating whether they shall call the subject of 
their teaching Darwinism or not. We are not surprised at their 
hesitation. Lamarck knew a good deal about evolution, but was 
not as well treated by his countrymen as Darwin has been by his. 
It is much better to be distinguished in England than in any other 
country. It isan amiable quality of the people of that fast little 
Isle to elevate well the angle of observation of their leading men, 
and to use good lenses in looking at them. This is an example 
which other nations should not be slow to follow, in scanning 
their own particular tract of the heavens. i 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
GEIKIE’S Text-Boox or Grotocy.'—Aside from the immediat 
€conomic importance of the study of geology, the ultimate facts 
nebular hypothesis is only a guess; while the lowest platform it 
life lies only as far down as the Cambro-Silurian horizon, when, 
iris 
This volume of 971 pages is somewhat in the same vein, if 
| Text Book of Geology. By ARCHIBALD G LL.D., F. R. S., Director-Gor g 
nien Peological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, eto. With Iiestrations, A 
n: Macmillan & Co., 1882.. 8vo, pp. 971, $7.50. 
