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notice from some of its learned members, and few journals contain such a 

 mass of new and valuable matter as the " Quarterly Journal " of that body. 

 Our business is more to distribute and make popular that which is known. 

 Our articles ought to be safe and practical— something to be depended upon by 

 students and provincial geologists ; and it is not speed for novelties that should be 

 the first consideration, although, for the sake of our scientific readers and sup- 

 porters, we shall not neglect any available source of obtaining the earliest in- 

 formation on various subjects, and of making it known. By means of the com- 

 bination of local workers which we have suggested, we trust to render good ser- 

 vice to all learned societies, by bringing together rapidly many coincident facts, 

 which may have a natural bearing upon the subjects of those papers which prac- 

 tical geologists are preparing to produce in a more scientific form than would be 

 ordinarily adapted for our pages. 



Fossil Rejiains. — Extract of a letter from the Rev. W. S. Symonds, of 

 Pendock. — " Near Waterford a quarry has been discovered, with numbers of 

 specimens of the peculiar « Yellow Sandstone ' fern, known as Cyclopteris or 

 Sphenopteris Hibernica, in full fructification." 



Books. — Greologist asks to be informed the prices and publishers' names of certain 

 works. — "The Proceedings of the Geological Society" have been published by the 

 Society itself, at the apartments at Somerset House. They date from 1826 to 1845. 

 Vol. i., price 4s. Gd. ; vols. ii. and iii., 2s. 6d. each. Vol. iv. is imperfect. — 

 " The Transactions of the Geological Society : " all the first series is out of 

 print, as well as Vol. ii. of the second series. The remainder of stock was 

 bought some time ago of the Society by Mr. Lumley, bookseller, Holborn, 

 excepting the last part of Vol. vii. — " The Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society" is published by Messrs. Longman, as well as by the Geological Society. 

 The price of each number is 3s. to Fellows, and 4s, to the public. Vol. i. is 

 imperfect. Volume xiv. is now in progress. The price per volume (in cloth) is 

 13s. 6d. to Fellows, and 17s. 6d. to the public. — The " Memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey" are numerous. The principal are the "Repoi't on Cornwall, Devon, 

 and West Somerset," by the late Sir H. T. De la Beche, F.R.S., 8vo., 14s.; 

 " Figures and Descriptions of Palseozoic Fossils " in those counties, by Professor 

 Phillips, 8vo., 9s. Two volumes of " Memoirs of Geological Survey of Great 

 Britain, 8vo., vol. i., 21s. ; vol. ii., in 2 parts, 42s. Several " Decades of British 

 Organic Remains," each, royal 4to., 4s. 6d., or royal 8vo., 2s. 6d. Lists of the 

 publications, books, maps, and sections, of the Survey may, we believe, be 

 obtained through any bookseller ; of Messrs. Longman ; or at the Museum of 

 Economic Geology, in Jermyn-street, Piccadilly. 



" Will you kindly inform me when it is probable the second volume of Mantell's 

 'Wonders of Geology,' by Mr. Rupert T. Jones, will be published?" — J. C, 

 Hereford.— The second volume was published on the 12th ult. 



Parallel Road in Sutherland. — sir, — In answer to your appeal in your 

 opening address, for assistance in the way of contributions, allow me to offer 

 my mite as au evidence of my wish for the success of your Magazine. *' The 

 parallel roads of Glen Roy " having been long known and frequently described, I 

 would direct the attention of those who feel an interest in such matters to a 

 similar appearance, which, so far as I know, has not yet been visited or examined 

 by any geologist. I had occasion, about six years ago, to visit the spot, and I 

 walked along this road for about the space of a mile. It is situated in the county 

 of Sutherland, about half-way between the Inns of Tongue and Betty Hill, on 

 the Thurso road, and is on the ffarm of Borgie. The road may be found opposite 

 the farmhouse, on the other side of the river of Borgie. It is evidently the 

 margin of what was once a lake, and which must have communicated with Loch 

 Loyal. The site of the pleasantly-situated farmhouse must have been at one time 

 covered with water, and what is now under cultivation was once the bottom of a 

 fresh-water lake. The lower end' of this valley must have given way, and 

 allowed the waters of the lake to run into the sea. Very near this spot, a 

 smgular platform of sand and detritus may be seen ; so extensive is it, that a 



