REVIEWS. 
Descriptive Catalogue of the Salishury and South Wilts Museum. 
ISalisbury: Beiiuett. 1864. 
Proceedings of the Inauguration of the Salisbury and South Wilts Museum. 
Salisbury: Bennett. 1864. 
The establishment of a new museum is always a matter of note, but 
that of an important one in so remarkable a district, both archseologically 
and geologically, as Wiltshire, is unusually interesting. The inauguration 
took place in January of the present year, an account of which was duly 
sent to us, but want of space prevented our noticing it at the time. We 
also received an illustrated descriptive catalogue of 112 pages and 14 
plates, which is a very model of what should be done for every local 
museum. The stone, bronze, and early iron objects have been catalogued 
by Mr. E. T. Stevens; the mediaeval series and the pottery, by Mr. 
^Nightingale ; the mediaeval seals, by Mr. W. Ormond ; the mammalian 
remains of the Pleistocene period, by our talented contributor Dr. H. P. 
Blackmore, and the birds by Mr. Henry Black more. It should be dis- 
tinctly understood that this is not a mere bare enumeration of the objects 
deposited in the museum, but that popular and intelligible explanations of 
the uses, objects, purposes, and nature of the objects registered, are freely 
and fully appended. Too much praise cannot be given to those who have 
thus striven to make the Salisbury Museum instructive to visitors of all 
denominations and degrees of education and intelligence. 
Geological Survey of Canada. 
The Eeport of Progress of this most important survey, from its com- 
mencement to 1863, illustrated with nearly five hundred woodcuts, has 
been produced by the officers, Sir William Logan, Director, Mr. Alexander 
Murray, Assistant Geologist, Mr. T. Sterry Hunt, Chemist and Mineralo- 
gist, and Mr. Billings, Palaeontologist. A noble volume it is, of all but a 
thousand pages, worthy of the clever, active, and indefatigable Director, of 
his able stafi", and creditable in production to the printer and the engraver ; 
for Montreal, in this respect, could not be expected to rival our own me- 
tropolis, but tlie typography and press-work are remarkably good for 
colonial work. An atlas of maps is to accompany the volume, but is not 
yet complete. The Geological Survey of Canada was instituted by the 
Provincial Government in 1843, and since then results have from time to 
time been submitted to the Legislature and published. The present volume 
contains, in a perfect form, the substance of those periodical reports, with a 
great deal of original matter ; and the work, as now presented, is a grand 
record of the fuU labours of the Survey. 
Flora Belfastiensis, By Kalph Tate, F.G.S. 
As Belfast was without a complete local Flora, the little book before us 
will supply a decided want, and emanating from a gentleman who is an ex- 
cellent geologist as well as a botanist, those s])ecial points which give the 
peculiar value which local Floras have to the field-geologist, will naturally 
have received due and more than usual attention. The list of plants seems 
to us a very full and perfect one ; but it is the introductory description 
of the physical features of the district that geologists will find most in- 
structive. It is well known that relations exist between the various soils 
and the plants which grow upon them ; but as drift and other superficial 
deposits are commonly widely spread over many areas, it follows that the 
