140 NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
six volumes, while the works of the Augustinians and Jesuits 
are too numerous to specify. 
In spite of all these, however, a good general work embracing 
all the departments of science is still a desideratum, for the ma- 
teriat of which Dr. Monrano’s Report is a contribution which 
cannot be too highly praised. His opportunities for observa- 
tion have been considerable. He visited in succession Luzon, 
Calamianes, Palawan, Balabac, Mindanao, and Panay, besides 
making long journeys inland, especially in the little known 
island of Mindanao. His qualifications for making the most 
of such SPELL appear to be of the highest order, and 
thus we have notices, necessarily brief it is “true, in almost 
every department of science. 
The Report is divided into tive chapters, viz.’:—1.—Geology ; 
2.—Meteorology ; 3.—Anthropology ; 4.—Pathology ; 5.—Dia- 
lects; 6.—Political Geography, including Agriculture and 
Commerce. Zoology and Botany are to form the subjects of a 
subsequent work. 
One would suppose, from the volcanic nature of these is- 
lands, that the geology would be somewhat uniform and that the 
author’s notes would be confined to notices.of voleanic pro- 
ducts with investigations on the disturbances to’ which the 
eroup has been subjected. But sedimentary and fossiliferous 
rocks are not wanting in the islands. The formation ranges 
from the lower paleozoie to miocene, through, like all the eastern 
islands, mesozoic rocks appear to he wanting. The writer of 
this notice, when visiting the Calamianes group some few 
months back, was surprised to find the island of Coron and 
many other smaller islands entirely composed of precipitous 
limestone similar to what is found m Selangor and Perak in 
the Malay Peninsula. And what makes the resemblance still 
more striking that immediately opposite, on the island of 
Culion, the rocks are paleozoic and ee decomposing 
into eric just hike what is found in the tin formations at 
Thaiperg. Limestone is also found in the north-west of Luzon, 
and also miocene rocks and broken fossils mostly of forami- 
nifera. As a general rule, it may be said that the sedimentary 
rocks belong more to the southern islands. In Mindanao there 
are quartz veins with gold in slates, also tertiary rocks. There 
