CONTENTS. 



Page 



M. Grras' Attack on the Evidence of the Flint-Implements in Eespect to the Anti- 

 quity of Man 281 



Notes on the aeology of Maidstone. {With two Plates.) By W. H. Bensted, Esq. . 294 



Correspondence : — 



Professor King's Synoptical Table . . 301 



Tertiary Mammalian Eemains at Dulwich 302 



Sicilian Bone- Caves 302 



Origin of Species 303 



Monography of the C-eological Survey 305 



Geological Notes in the Grreat Exhibition 306 



Proceedings of Greological Societies 309 



Notes and Queries : — 



Anthracite in Silurian Eocks 312 



Further Notes on Human Skulls from Heathery Burn Cave, etc 313 



Fossils fi'om Treflach Quarry 316 



Sharks' Teeth at Panama 316 



Bitimiiuous Sandstone . . . . . . . . . . .316 



Human Eemains in Alluvium , . .317 



Foreign Intelligence . . . ' • • • • • • • • .317 



Eeviews : — 



On the Zoology of Ancient Europe 318 



Proceedings of Greologists' Association, No. 8 . . . . . . . 319 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



Communications received from Eev. J. S. Tate, Markington Eectory, Eipley, York- 

 shire ; J. HoENE, Esq., Grlasgow ; J. Wtatt, Esq., F.G-.S., Bedford ; Thomas G-eindlet, 

 Esq., Grlossop ; C. Jickes, Esq., Woodlands ; C. C. Blake, Esq. ; Mr. J. Elliott, 

 Stanhope. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



On the Zoology of Ancient Europe. By A. Newton, M.A. Macmillan. 1862. 



On Isodiametric Lines as Means of Eepresenting the Distribution of Sedimentary Clay 

 and Sandy Strata as distinguished from Calcareous Strata, with Special Eeference to the 

 Carboniferous Eocks of Great Britain. By Edwaed Hull, F.G.S. 



Bulletin del' Academic Eoyale de Belgique. No. 5. Bruxelles. 1862. 



Transactions of the Manchester Philosopkical Society. No. 13. 1862. 



Bulletin de 1' Academic Eoyalede Belgique. Nos. 2, 3, 4. 1862. 



The Law of Increase and the Structure of Man. By Dr. LiHAEZlK. 



Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. No. 8. 



Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society. No. 14. 



On the Failure of Geological Attempts in Greece prior to the Epoch of Alexander. By 

 Dr. J. ScnvAECZ, Part I. London : Taylor and Francis. 1862. 



Theoretical Considerations on the Conditions under which the Drift Deposits contain- 

 ing the Eemains of Extinct Mammalia and Flint-Implements were accumulated, and 

 their Geological Age. (From Proceedings of the Eoyal Society.) By J oseph Peestwich, 

 Esq., F.E.S. 1862. 



Flint Imploments in the Drift, being an Account of Further Discoveries on the Conti- 

 nent and in England. (From the ' Arcliaeologia.') By John Evans, F.S.A. 1862. 



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