Eeview of Recent Geological Literature. 431 
graphs. 8vo, clotb. Price S5.00. Published and for sale by John Wiley 
& Sons, 15 Astor Place, N. Y. This much needed translation is announced 
to be ready on or about Oct. 15, 1888. 
Anti-Evolution: Girardeau vs. [foodrow. By James G. Martin. This 
pamphlet is an outcome of the celebrated Woodrow case of the Theolo"-- 
ical Seminary of Columbia, S. C. It is a review of an article by Rev. John 
L. Girardeau, D.D., LL.D., in the " Presbyterian Quarterly " for July, 1888. 
Dr. Martin is a prominent pastor in Memphis, Tenn. This criticism, like 
the article reviewed, and like the whole treatment which the Woodrow 
controversy has received from the church, is grounded on purely ecclesi- 
astical considerations. It is a defense of the orthodoxy of evolution, and 
a demonstration of the scriptural untenability of the pretenses which have 
been set up in opposition. While such modes of reasoning may be useful 
within the bounds of ecclesiastical bodies, they do not touch the only vital 
question, " Is evolution a method of nature? " It is an inquiry within the 
domain of science, and scientific evidence must furnish the answer. When 
the answer has been rendered, as it has, all ecclesiastical and philological 
hair-splittings are irrelevant and puerile. The truth in evolution must 
quadrate with all that is true ; and we may safely test the truth of tradi- 
tional beliefs by their accordance with the divine truth taught in Nature. 
Congres Oeologique International, Com^yte rendu de la 3mo Session. 
Berlin, 1885. This report of the Berlin session was issued but a few days 
previous to the London session, and hence was not available in any prepa- 
rations to be made for the London session. It is a noble octavo of cxli and 
546 pages, beautifully printed on finest paper, and a worthy successor of 
the luxurious Bologna volumes. The first part is a ''History of the Con- 
gress," comprising, after sundry preliminaries, a list of the members of 
the Congress, 456 in number, a list of delegates to the Berlin session, and 
the constitutions of the successive bureaux. The second part consists of 
the labors of the Congress in seven successive settings. The third part 
consists of scientific communications by Gaudry, Mojsisovics, Ne Jvberrj' 
Szabo, Baron de Zigno, Mayer-Ezmar, Reusch, Noetling, Dupont, Nau- 
mann, Huyssen, Ochsanius, Posepny, Blanford, Inostranzeff, Dollfus and 
Powell . The fourth part consists of documents pertaining to the formal 
business of the Congress, including reports of the committee on uniformity 
of nomenclature, report of secretary Dewalque, and reports of the national 
committees of Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Hungary, Portugal^ 
Roumania and Switzerland, together with various reports of sub-com- 
mittees on particular formations. 
It will be remembered that a report in English of the proceedings of the 
Berlin Congress was published by the American committee, under the 
editorship of Dr. Frazer, secretary of the committee; and that the latter 
has published in the pages of the Geologist, an abstnictof proceedings of 
the Paris, Bologna and Berlin sessions embracing an account of the origin 
of the Congress. 
The next session is appointed to be held in Philadelphia in 1891. The 
vernacular of nine-tenths of the delegates will be English, and if French 
is retained as the ofiicial language, the spectacle will be very extraordinary. 
