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THE GEOLOGIST. 
ginal truth handed down to us in these legends ; for although presented to 
us in an Asiatic aspect, there are race-characters in the Jews which should 
refer their primary origin to the European area ; and although these glacial 
debacles produced no universal deluge, covering with its waters the tops of 
the highest mountains, yet local floods deluging so many and such various 
districts, would be so nearly coincident and contemporary in time, that 
their results would be practically, if not literally, universal. — S. J. Mackie. 
Erratum. — P. 80, in communication from Mr. Pattison,/or "Oltrungt" 
read " Oetrungt;" for " apparent Devonian" read ''uppermost Devonian." 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 
The 'American Journal of Science ' for January contains a translation 
of M. Perrey's Theory of Earthquakes, from his ' Propositions sur les 
Trerablements de TeiTe et les Volcans,' a continuation of Professor Dana's 
articles " On the Classification of Animals based on the Principle of Cepha- 
lization," the group of insects being taken up in the present number. 
There is also a short but most interesting note by the Professor, on some 
fossil insects from the Carboniferous formation in Illinois, accompanied by 
woodcut figures. These insect-remains were discovered by Mr. Bromson 
in the Carboniferous beds at Morris, Illinois. They occur in the flattened 
ironstone concretions of the beds, which also contain plant-remains and 
two or three species of Amphipod Crustaceans ; one specimen is a Neu- 
ropter, closely like the Semblids, and especially the Chauliodes. The 
other specimen figured is also a Neuropter ; it is a mutilated anterior wing, 
the neuration approximating to that of the genus Hemerobius. There is 
also an able paper on the " Density Eotation and Relative Age of the 
Planets," by Professor Henrichs, of the Iowa State University. The other 
articles are "On Tephroite," by Mr. Geo. J. Brush. Amongst the Notices — 
Unger's Scientific Eesults of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands ; 
Guyot's Physical Wall-Maps of the Continent ; Professor Whitney on the 
Highest Mountains of the United States and of North America, and on the 
Survey of California ; on the Constitution of Columbite, by H. Eose ; Con- 
tributions to Palaeontology, by Professor James Hall ; Monograph of 
Eossil Estheria, by Professor Pupert J ones ; Dana's ' Text-book of Geology ;' 
Tract on Crystallography, designed for students of the University, by Mr. 
H. Miller, of Cambridge ; Descriptions of Fossil Plants collected by Mr. 
Geo. Gibbs, Geologist to the U.S. North-west Boundary Commission, by 
Dr. J. S. Newberry. 
