(1) A First Book of Geology (2) An Introduction to the Geology of New South Wales

Abstract

(1) DR. WILMORE'S “first book” of geology presumably completes the admirable series that includes, under the care of the same publishers, the works of Prof. Watts and Sir Archibald Geikie, and culminates in the latters monumental “Text-book.” The landscape illustrations are clear and well chosen; we may specially mention Mr. Harrison's tors on Dartmoor, and the Sligo peat-bog, with Ben Bulben in the background, by Mr. Welch (of Belfast, not Dublin). Without any appearance of crowding, a remarkable amount of fundamental information is included here in 140 pages. Practical work is encouraged, and the book is well suited for schools. The fact that the dip is the greatest possible angle of those that might be read with the clinometer should be emphasised on p. 32. The fine picture of Vesuvius on p. 43 represents the well known eruption of 1872, not 1892. A figure 2 is missing from the olivine formula on p. 54; water is omitted from that for gypsum on p. 94; and the use of the word foliæ and the classical derivations generally require revision. A new edition of so attractive a book will soon be called for. We note that such modern points of interest as the lava-plug of Mt. Pelée and the wanderings of pebbles from Ailsa Craig find a place in this lucid introduction to geology.

(1) A First Book of Geology.

By Dr. A. Wilmore. Pp. vi + 141 (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 1s. 6d.

(2) An Introduction to the Geology of New South Wales.

By C. A. S ssmilch. Pp. xviii + 269. Second edition. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson; London: Oxford University Press, 1914.) Price 7s. 6d. net.