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THE GEOLOGIST. 



typical fossils and the indications of localities, this lecture is interesting even to 

 the scientific reader, from the lucid manner in which it points out the relations of 

 land and sea during, and the climatal conditions of, the Eocene period. Appended to 

 these lectures are a coloured outline geological map of the neighbourhood of 

 London, and a vertical section on scale of the Drift and London Tertiary strata at 

 Clapham — this latter conveying a most excellent view of the whole series of 

 Tertiary beds, from the gravel down to the thin stratum of green-coated flints below 

 the Thanet Sands, as it rests on the furrowed surface of the chalk. 



Outlines of Geology. Edited by T. Allison Readwin, F.G.S. London : Reynolds 

 and Co., 15, Old Broad Street. 1858. 

 Nothing shows so little, in their completeness, the labour and time of production, 

 as tables or tabular arrangements of special subjects. Such are like the sums 

 total of bills where no items are apparent, no calculations displayed ; or like the 

 portrait of a house, in which we observe nothing of the expenditure or workman- 

 ship, nothing of the thousands of bricks, the loads of mortar, the timber, iron, 

 paint, and paper ; but are only gratified with the result produced. The chief and 

 best feature in Mr. Readwin's " Outlines " is the Table of British Rocks (table 

 No. 3), showing the order and the superposition of the systems, formations, and 

 strata into which the various mineral masses have been arranged by Geologists. 

 Concise, accurate, and well arranged, it is easily understood ; and its lessons may 

 be safely remembered, because they are true according to the present determina- 

 tions of the science. 



The attempt to indicate the minerals of each deposit is novel, and although only 

 partially successful, is to be highly commended as a step in the right direction. 



It is necessary now to know something of Geology. One cannot pass muster in 

 cultivated society without at least that amount of elementary knowledge which 

 may here be procured for a shilling. 



Geology and Genesis. By C. London : Whittaker and Co. 1857. 



This book has resulted from the controversy between Dr. Baylee and "C," 

 carried on in the columns of the daily Post, in January and February last year, 

 and bears on its title-page the aphorism of Bacon, Vere scire est per causas scire. 

 We confess to have, in general, little alfection for any sort of controversies : they 

 generally lead to ill-will ; and such points as that which forms the subject of this 

 production, more than any other, require the utmost amount of special knowledge 

 and mutual forbearance and good-will. 



An old adage says that in all quarrels there is always something wrong on both 

 sides, and we must say that we agree with neither one party nor the other in this 

 dispute. We consider them both, to some extent, wrong, and that recourse must 

 still be had to the facts to understand well, or at all, either the harmony or the 

 imputed discordance between Genesis and Geology. Some knotty points are 

 ingeniously treated in these pages ; but, as might have been expected, there seems 

 manifested a strong desire, on either side, to acquire a victory. 



To all who attempt this subject we would say, Study your Bible and study 

 Geology in the full faith that truth will never be antagonistic to truth — and then 

 judge for yourselves. 



The book, although insufficient in the settlement of this much-vexed question, 

 is by no means without use as a text-book or as a store of quotations and of ideas 

 relating to the literature and hypotheses of Cosmogony. 



