CONTENTS. 



Human Remains from tlie Valley of the Trent. {With a Plate.) By Professor 



Htjxley, F.K.S 



On the Crania of Ancient Races of Men. {With numerous Illustrations.) By C. C. 



Blake, Esq 20o 



On the " Possil Beads " of the Drift. By J. Wtatt, Esq., F.G.S 233 



Correspondence : — 



The so-called " Fossil Beads " of the Drift. By T, Rfpeet Jones, Esq. . . 235 



Proceedings of Greological Societies : — 



Origin of Bone Beds. By GrEOKaE E. Robeets 237 



Foreign Intelligence : — 



Meeting of Geologists at Poligny 238 



Fossil Canoe at Cordon . ^ . • • . 238 



Notes and Queries : — 



Decomposing Basalt, Giants' Causeway. {With a Plate.) . . ^ . . . 239 



MammaHan Remains at Demblans , . .239 



Microscopic Organisms in the Palaeozoic Rocks of New York . . . .239 



Review; — 



Monographic des Gasteropodes et des Cephalopodes des Couches Cretacees Supe- 

 rieures du Limbom'g. By M. Binkhorst 240 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



Communications received from W. W. Whitakee, Esq., F.G.S. , Gravesend ; G. H. 

 West, Esq., Rugby ; C. Elton, Esq., Holt ; C. C. Blake, Esq., Brunswick Square ; 

 J. Ceest, Esq. ; W. N. Lawson, Esq. ; G. Y. Du Nqyee, Esq., Enniscorthy ; Thomas 

 PrEDTJE, Esq., Whitney ; Geoege Wilson, Esq., Wakefield ; Professor W. King, Gal- 

 way ; J. Mtishen, Esq., Birmingham ; Dr. Bevan, Llanellen, Abergavenny ; Edwaed 

 Wood, Esq., Richmond ; James Hoene, Esq., Glasgow ; Miss MacNeille, Rostrevor ; 

 Miss A. B. Wellwood ; Geoege Tate, Esq., Alnwick. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Recherches sur I'Eau dans I'lnteriem' de la TeiTc. Par M. Delesse, 



Geology of the Railway fi'om Worcester to Hereford. By the Rev. W. S. Symonds. 



London: Hardwicke. 1862. 



Anniversary Addi-ess to Geological Society. By Professor Huxley. London : Taylor 



and Francis. 1862. 



Defense des Colonics. Part II. By M. J. Baeeaude. Prague : Kleinseite. 1862. 

 On the Teeth in Man and the Anthropoid Apes. By Dr. Webb. 

 Mouographie des Cephalopodes des Couches Cretacees Superieures du Limbourg. By 

 M. Yait den Binkhoest. Brussels : Muquardt. 1862. 



