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IT is intended that this shall be the first issue of an annual publication; and, if future volumes are prepared with as much care as the present one, the work ought to be of much service to geologists. Its scope is restricted to writings which have appeared in the United Kingdom. The author is not content with noting merely the titles of the works he records. When they are of the least importance, he gives a general idea of their contents, and presents what seems to him an adequate critical estimate of their value. The classification is by subjects. He begins with general geology; then come stratigraphical geology, palæontology, palæobotany, petrology, economics, maps and sections, and works relating to foreign geology, but published in Britain. A section headed “Personal Items” brings together a number of facts to which it may sometimes be convenient for the student of geology to refer. The volume deserves to be all the more cordially welcomed because Mr. Blake is not of opinion that he has at one stroke reached perfection. He hopes that future volumes may be improved by the co-operation of specialists in the several departments.
Annals of British Geology, 1890.
By J. F. Blake. (London: Dulau and Co., 1891.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 45, 77 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045077d0
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