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Analyses of Books . 
[September, 
Prodromus of the Palceontology of Victoria. Decade VI. By 
F. McCoy, F.G.S., &c. Melbourne : Ferris ; Robertson. 
London : Triibner and Co. ; Robertson. 
We have here carefully executed figures and elaborate descrip- 
tions of organic remains found in Victoria. 
The first plate refers to Macropus Titan , a gigantic extincft 
kangaroo, which may be considered the representative of the 
“ Old Man ” kangaroo of the present epoch. Percoptodon 
Goliah is another gigantic species, which approaches the 
Diprotodon, and which differs from the true kangaroos in its 
more complete dentition, and its thicker, shorter, and more equal 
legs : its remains are found in the Pliocene Tertiary Clays of 
Lake Timboon. 
The fourth plate is devoted to the ear-bones — so-called “ ceto- 
lites of three extincft species of whales. 
Plate V. represents the teeth of a gigantic fossil Spermaceti 
whale found in the Older Pliocene beds of Mordialloc. 
. Plates VI. and VII. give fossil Mollusca ; Plate VIII. a new 
and abundant species of Hinnites from the Miocene Tertiaries. 
The last two plates represent sea-urchins from the same 
formations. 
Four more decades are announced as forthcoming. 
Notes on the Alluvial and Drift Deposits of the Trent Valley , near 
Nottingham. A Popular Ledture delivered to the Notting- 
ham Naturalists’ Society. By James Shipman. Notting- 
ham : Norris and Cokayne. 
The author adduces visible and tangible evidence that the Trent 
has scooped out the valley in which it flows, and has left on its 
escarpments terraces marking the stages by which this process 
was effected. It is perhaps humiliating that such teachings 
should be needed, but we meet with persons who still entertain 
the belief that the beds of rivers were made not by them, but 
for them. 
Several important books stand over for review, on account of 
the want of space. 
