CONTENTS. 



Page 



Dr. Frankland on the Glacial Era, By the Editor 161 



On Kemains of the Megaceros Hibemicus in Gypsum in Ireland. By David 



Leslie, M.D 165 



New Species of Terebratella, from the Bargate Stone. By Mr. C. J. A. Meyer . 166 

 Correspondence : — 



Geological Plagiarism. By James Haswell . . . . ■ . . . 168 

 The Eternity of the Universe ; in Hebrew Phraseology, of the Heavens and the 



Earth. By Frederick Fysh 168 



The Scottish Pteraspis. By James Powrie 170 



Spiral Planetary Orbits. By John Pentecost, E.C.S .172 



Colonial Geology : — 



Leaves from my Australian Notebook. By Thomas Harrison, of Melbourne. 

 No. I. — Cape Schanck, its Basalts and Caves 174 



Proceedings of Geological Societies : — 



School of Mines. — Dr. Percy's Lectures on Chemical Geology : Lecture III. . 178 



Dublin Royal Society 186 



Royal Institution 187 



Royal Geological Society of Ireland 195 



Geological Society 198 



Foreign Intelligence : — 



On some Mammalian Remains from the Neighbourhood of Vienna. By Dr. 



ZlTTEL . . 199 



On some Upper Cretaceous Cceloptychia. By Director Hornes . . . 199 

 On the Bayreuth Sandstones. By Professor Gumbel 200 



On some Neogene Fossils from Transylvania. By Chev. Fr. Ritter yon Hatter 200 

 Review : — 



Popular Geology of Darlington. By R. T. Manson 200 



Cloth Cases for binding the ' Geologist,' Is. each, may be had of the Publishers. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Zoological Nomenclature. By British Association Committee. Edinburgh : Neill and 

 Co. 1863. 



Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, No. XVII., Session 

 1862-3. Liverpool: Brakell. 1863. 



Sillhnan's American Journal of Science, January, 1864. 



Rules of the South Shields Geological Club, and President's Address. 



Notes on the Geology and Mineralogy of the Spanish Provinces of Santandar and 

 Madrid. By Dr. W. K Sullivan and J. P. O'Reilly, C.E. London : Williams and 

 Norgate. 1863. 



British Rainfall, 1863. By G. J. Symons. London : Stanford. 1864. 

 Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society. 



Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute, Vol. I. Part I. Halifax. 1863. 

 Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Konigliehen Geologischen Reichsanstalt. 



On the Section at Moulin- Quign on, Abbeville, and the Peculiar Character of some of 

 the Flint Implements recently discovered there. By J oseph Prestwich, F.R.S. Nov. 1863. 



La Machoire Humaine de Moulin-Quignon. Proces-Verbaux des Seances du Congres 

 reitni a Paris et a Abbeville. Par M. Delesse, Secretaire du Congres. 



Proceedings at the Inauguration of the Salisbury and South Wilts Museum. 



Descriptive Catalogue of the Salisbury and South Wilts Museum. 



Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood. By Hugh Miller. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. 1864. 



Sixteenth Annual Report on the New York State Cabinet of Natural History. Ap- 

 pendix D. : Contributions to Palaeontology, by Professor James Hall. 



The Geology of the Country around Liverpool. By George H. Morton, F.G.S. Re- 

 vised edition. 1863. 



Further Observations on the Devonian Plants of Maine, Gaspe, and New York. By 

 Dr. Dawson, of Montreal. 



Synopsis of the Flora of the Carboniferous Period in Nova Scotia. By Dr. Dawson, 

 Principal of M'Gill College, Montreal. 



Canadian Naturalist, Vol. VIII., No. 6. 



Report of Manchester Scientific Students' Association for 1863. Manchester : Cave. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Institution. 

 Proceedings of Institute of Civil Engineers. 



On Modern and Scriptural Geology. By Joseph Dickenson, F.G.S. , etc., President of 

 the Manchester Geological Society. 



