(1) The Earth: Its Genesis and Evolution considered in the Light of the most recent Scientific Research(2)Grundzüge der geologischen Formations- und Gebirgskunde(3)Determinative Mineralogy

Abstract

(1) MR. SWAINE'S book represents extensive reading in geological reports and journals, some of which are not easy to procure. The references to authors require some correction—T. C. Chamberlin, for instance, is consistently quoted as “Chamberlain”—but they are well chosen and are thoroughly suggestive to the student. Thanks to this free acceptance of the results obtained by field observers in many lands, a great deal of stratigraphical information is to be found within these pages. The author, however, is possessed by an idea, which forms the undercurrent of the book, and must appear somewhat startling to petrologists, if not also to biologists. He holds that the “globes of condensed vapour” (p. 9) that occur in nebulæ pass into a liquid state, producing, if we read aright, globes of water in which certain elements are dissolved.

(1) The Earth: Its Genesis and Evolution considered in the Light of the most recent Scientific Research.

By A. T. Swaine. Pp. xix + 277 + xi plates. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(2) Grundzge der geologischen Formations- und Gebirgskunde.

By Prof. A. Tornquist. Pp. iv + 296. (Berlin: Gebrder Borntraeger, 1913.) Price 6.80 marks.

(3) Determinative Mineralogy.

With Tables for the Determination of Minerals by means of their Chemical and Physical Characters. By Prof. J. Volney Lewis. Pp. v + 151. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall., Ltd., 1913.) Price 6s. 6d. net.