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THE GEOLOGIST. 
These specimens hare been forwarded to us ; and througli the kindness of 
Mr. H. "Woodward have been submitted to the examination of Mr. F. Smith, 
of the British Museum, whose o])iuion is expressed in Mr. Woodward's letter. 
Dear Sir, — Mr. Fredk. Smith has looked at the Peckham specimens with me, 
and tlie result arrived at is as follows : — Three specimens are not determinable ; 
two otlier perhaps are not insect at all; one is the elytron of a species of 
Curculionida, e^euus Strophosomus ? or Cucorhinus ? and another an elytron 
of a species of Elater. — Youi's truly, Henry Woodward. 
Drift ix the Southern Hemisphere. — Dear Sir, — In +he course of my 
geological readings, I do not gather much knowledge regarding' the prevalent 
direction of Drift in the southern hemisphere. If you could kindly give me 
any information respecting it, through the medium of that interesting depart- 
ment, the " Notes and Queries" of the Geologist Magazme, you would much 
oblige, your very obedient servant.- — J. Curry, Boltsburn, Eastgate. 
New"^ Species of Raia from Monte Bolc.a. — Erom Count Marschall, wo 
learn that Professor Molin has lately discovered three new species of the genus 
Haia among the fossil fishes of Monte Bolca ; and that this Tertiary fish-fauna, 
generally supposed to be analogous with that of the Mediterranean, exhibits 
on close examination a somewhat tropical character. 
HEYIEWS. 
A HandhooTc for Travellers in South Wales and its Borders, including the River 
Wye; with a Travellers 2Iap. London : John Murray, Albermarle-street. 
1860. 
Murray's handbooks are known everywhere. "Wherever the traveller or 
tourist intends visiting a district or a country, he is sure in the first place to 
seek for one of Murray's Guides. It is fortunate for South Wales that, pos- 
sessing so much geological interest, the authorship of Murray's handbook for 
that region has faUen into the hands of so good a geologist as our friend and 
correspondent. Dr. Bevau, who from his long residence there possesses also 
peculiar advantages for the task. The enormous development during the last 
twenty years of mining enterprise and the opening of new railways have made 
such material alterations in those parts that no one but a resident could never 
have accomplished a successful guide for the wanderer in search of the com- 
mercial, the usefrJ, and the antique or the picturesque. 
In the first three chapters on the physical features, geology, and manufac- 
tures, the student of our science has an admirably succinct account of all the 
principal matters of interest to him; while at page 29 all the "points of 
interest for the geologist" are specially picked out — like plums from the pud- 
ding — of the work, and handed to him in one luxurious dish. 
Such perpetual and indefatigable ramblers as geologists invariably are — 
whenever they can be induced to look beyond theii' own dear dusty quarries 
at the social scenes and antiquarian relics that are everywhere to be met on the 
long, long roads which they with heavy loads so lightly travel, — they oughc to be 
the "righl men" for toui"ists' guides ; and Dr. Bevan, who has undoubtedly kept 
his eyes open to all worth seeing, seems as much at home in the rest of his 
book as the traveller's companion as he undoubtedly is in the geological and 
physical descriptions of his district. 
