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in proportion to its length and breadth, and that the Tertiary 
beds have been deposited in a hollow cut out in the chalk. Mr. 
Godwin-Austen inferred from the exposures of older rocks in the 
Ardennes (Belgium) and in the Menaips (Somerset) that these 
are parts of one grand line of elevation, connected underground 
nearly along the valley of the Thames. His conclusion has 
been since verified by borings, but the direction of the dip of 
these strata has not yet been ascertained. 
The author considers that no important supply of water need 
be expedted on tapping the Lower Greensand, on account of its 
thinness and its very limited outcrop. 
Records of the Geological Survey of India. Vol. xiii., Part 1. 
1880. 
This issue contains the annual summary of the Survey and of 
the Geological Museum at Calcutta, for the year 1879. It is 
remarked that Mr. Griesbach, in examining the higher Himalaya 
of Kumann and Hundes, has discovered and brought in a good 
harvest of fossils. 
We note with interest that two natives have received permanent 
appointments as Sub-assistants. The author seems, however, to 
doubt whether they can ever prove competent for independent 
field-work, which requires “ the very quality which more than any 
other makes the western man differ from the eastern.” 
In the list of societies and institutions with which the Survey 
exchanges publications, we find the “ Geological Survey of New 
Zealand ” and the “ New Zealand Institute ” described as at 
Washington ! 
The memoirs comprised in this number are — “Additional Notes 
on the Geology of the Upper Godavari Basin,” by W. King ; 
“ Geology of Ladak,” by R. Lydekker ; “ Teeth of Fossil Fishes 
from Ramri Island and the Punjab,” by R. Lydekker ; “ Notes 
on certain Fossil Genera in the Palaeozoic and Secondary Rocks 
of Europe, Asia, and Australia,” by Ottokar Feistmantel ; 
“ Notes on Fossil Plants from Kattywar, Shekh Budin, and 
Sirgujah,” by O. Feistmantel ; “ On Volcanic Foci of Eruption 
in the Konkan,” by G. T. Clark. 
