MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES &e. 
NEW PUBLICATION RECEIVED. 
1. The Calcutta Review No, XVIII June, 1848. (From the 
Editor) Contents : 
Corrie and his Colemporaries—The Ante-Episcopal Period. 
Geology of India. 
The Hindi language—Thompson’s Dictionary. 
The Acts of the Governor- General oflndia in Council. 
The Bengal Artillery. 
Major Smyth’s History of the Reigning Family of Lahore. 
Miscellaneous Critical Notices. 
We are glad to see that geology is to receive that share of atten¬ 
tion which it deserves, in this excellent periodical which every Eng¬ 
lishman in the east ought to read.* The able article on the geolo¬ 
gy of India in the present number consists of a general introduction 
to tire science, extending over some 30 pages, and a review of a re¬ 
cent work by that talented and indefatigable geologist Captain New- 
bold, who must be well known to most of our readers by his work 
on the Straits Settlements. In the course of his remarks the re¬ 
viewer adverts to the question of the origin of Laterite, which 
he considers as settled by Captain Newbold’s facts. He omits how¬ 
ever to inform us what opinion he has derived from these facts. 
Captain Newbold’s numerous papers in the Journal of the Asiatic 
Society on the Geology of Southern India leave no doubt on our 
mind that the Indian laterites have the same origin as those of the 
Malay Peninsula, the majority of which are nothing hut sedimentary 
rocks, more or less altered and disguised by iron, which has been in¬ 
troduced into them by exhalations from the plutonic rocks on which 
they rest. (See Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1847 
p. 520, 21 ; 670, 71, 79 to 81, Journal of the Indian Arelx. for Fe¬ 
bruary 1848, and the Notices of the Geology of the Last Coast of 
Johore in the present number.) 
2. Journal of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society , No 
J. to No. XI. (from the Society.) 
* We would particularly recommend it to our countrymen in Java amt 
Manila. The nature of this Journal precludes us from noticing what most 
of our readers will probably consider its most interesting articles. 
Yoh IL No, IX, September, 1848. 
