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THE GEOLOGIST. 



ginal truth handed down to us in these legends ; for although presented to 

 us in an Asiatic aspect, there are race-characters in the Jews which should 

 refer their primary origin to the European area ; and although these glacial 

 debacles produced no universal deluge, covering with its waters the tops of 

 the highest mountains, yet local floods deluging so many and such various 

 districts, would be so nearly coincident and contemporary in time, that 

 their results would be practically, if not literally, universal. — S. J. Mackie. 



Erratum. — P. 80, in communication from Mr. Pattison, for "Oltrungt" 

 read " Oetrungt;" for " apparent Devonian" read "uppermost Devonian." 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



The 'American Journal of Science ' for January contains a translation 

 of M. Perrey's Theory of Earthquakes, from his ' Propositions sur les 

 Tremblements de Terre et les Volcans,' a continuation of Professor Dana's 

 articles " On the Classification of Animals based on the Principle of Cepha- 

 lization," the group of insects being taken up in the present number. 

 There is also a short but most interesting note by the Professor, on some 

 fossil insects from the Carboniferous formation in Illinois, accompanied by 

 woodcut figures. These insect-remains were discovered by Mr. Bromson 

 in the Carboniferous beds at Morris, Illinois. They occur in the flattened 

 ironstone concretions of the beds, which also contain plant-remains and 

 two or three species of Amphipod Crustaceans ; one specimen is a Neu- 

 ropter, closely like the Semblids, and especially the Chauliodes. The 

 other specimen figured is also a Neuropter ; it is a mutilated anterior wing, 

 the neuration approximating to that of the genus Hemerobius. There is 

 also an able paper on the " Density Rotation and Relative Age of the 

 Planets," by Professor Henrichs, of the Iowa State University. The other 

 articles are "On Tephroite," by Mr. Geo. J. Brush. Amongst the Notices — 

 Unger's Scientific Results of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands ; 

 Guyot's Physical Wall-Maps of the Continent ; Professor Whitney on the 

 Highest Mountains of the United States and of North America, and on the 

 Survey of California ; on the Constitution of Columbite, by H. Rose ; Con- 

 tributions to Palaeontology, by Professor James Hall; Monograph of 

 Eossil Estheria, by Professor Rupert Jones; Dana's ' Text-book of Geology ;' 

 Tract on Crystallography, designed for students of the University, by Mr. 

 H. Miller, of Cambridge ; Descriptions of Fossil Plants collected by Mr. 

 Geo. Gibbs, Geologist to the U.S. North-west Boundary Commission, by 

 Dr. J. S. Newberry. 



