1885 .] Analyses 0 / Books. 683 
Mr. Bucknall continues his catalogue of the Fungi of the 
Bristol district. 
Mr. E. Wilson, F.G.S., curator of the Bristol Museum, fur- 
nishes notes on a common Fin Whale ( Physalus antiquorum) 
recently stranded in the Bristol Channel. Mr. C. T. Druery, 
F.L.S., gives an account of thenewly-discovered phenomenon of 
“ apospory ” in Ferns, i.e., the production of the prothallus upon 
the parent plant without the mediation of the spore. 
From the table of the rainfall at Clifton it appears that the 
total rainfall there fell short of the average of the last 30 years by 
less than 1 inch. 
Records of the Geological Survey of India. Vol. XVIII., Part 3. 
1885. 
In this issue we find a paper by Mr. R. D. Oldham on the 
Geology of the Andaman Islands. The author finds reason to 
examine the common theory that the Andamans have been and 
are subsiding. He meets the evidence of subsidence at the 
present day, which, however, has apparently set in only 
recently. 
Mr. Medlicott furnishes an account of the Pirthalia and 
Chandpur meteorites. The fall of the latter seems to have been 
attended by a thunderstorm. 
Dr. Romanis reports on the oil-wells and coal in the 
Thayetmyo district in British Burma. The yield of oil is only 
about one barrel per month. The coal deposits of the Amakan 
Yoma seem to have been formed in the swamps and lagoons of 
a river-delta. Those at Thayetmyo have originated during a 
period of subsidence. It is thought that there are two seams of 
four feet in thickness, separated by 60 to 70 feet of shale. 
Mr. W. R. Criper communicates a note on the antimony 
deposits near Maulmein. The ore is found not in lodes, but in 
disconnected deposits, and seems incapable of profitable work- 
ing. The rainfall at Maulmein is from 170 to 220 inches yearly. 
Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liver- 
pool, during the 73rd Session, 1883-84, No. XXXVIII. 
London : Longmans, Green, and Co. Liverpool : D. 
Marples and Co. 
This volume contains some valuable papers, though, as is too 
often the case, matter not of general interest appears, to us at 
least, to occupy too large a share of space. 
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