CONTENTS. 



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aiacial Action in South of Ireland. By G. Y. Du Noyer. {With two Plates and 



Woodcuts,) 241 



Origin of Species. By Professor KiN& 254 



Correspondence : — 



Trinidad Pitch Lakes 258 



Human Skeleton at Leicester 260 



Proceedings of Greological Societies : — 



Distribution of Northern Plants. By Professor Oliver . . . . . 262 



On Coal. By W. W. Smyth, F.K.S 263 



On the Loess of North of France and South of England. By J. Prestwich, 

 F.E.S. {With, Woodcut.) 265 



Notes and Queries : — 



Corylacese in Lignite near Glasgow ......... 272 



Mammahan Eemains at Bedford . . . 273 



Foreign InteUigenee : — 



Date of the Elevation of the Eocky Mountains 273 



The Coal-field of Mons 274 



Eeviews : — 



" Further Discoveries of Flmt Implements." By J. Evans, F.S.A. . . . 274 



" Fishes of the Devonian Period." By Professor Huxley 276 



" Eevue de Geologic pour I'Annee 1860." By MM. Delesse and Latjgel. . . 280 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



Communications received from Dr. E. N. Ettbidge, Port Elizabeth ; C. Carter Blake, 

 Esq., Brunswick Square ; Dr. Falconer ; G. V. Du Noyer, Esq. ; J. Plant, Esq., 

 Leicester. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Dublin Quarterly Jommal of Science. Edited by Eev. Professor Haughton. July, 

 1862. 



Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society. No. 14. 1862. 

 Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Masson, Paris. 1862. 



