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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 cliniatal 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 affection 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 antagoiiistic to truth — and then 
judge for yourselves. 
The book, although insufiBcient 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. 
