Scientific Serials

Abstract

THE Geological Magazine for July (No. 73) contains rather ewer original articles than usual, but what there are will be found interesting. The series of notices of eminent living geologists is continued in a notice of one of the most accomplished of the number, Professor John Phillips, of whom we have a good biography, but a very unsatisfactory portrait. Mr. Carruthers gives a notice of the so-called fossil forest near Cairo; he distinguishes a new species of Nicolia (N. owenii), and illustrates its microscopic structure as compared with that of the old species N. ægyptiaca Unger.— Mr. Kinahan communicates a paper containing a comparison of the geological features of Devon, Cornwall, and Galway, with a discussion of the means by which they have been produced; and Miss E. Hodgson a long disquisition on the origin and distribution of the granite-drift of the Furness district. The longest article in the journal is a report of Mr. David Forbes' lecture on Volcanoes, which will be read with much interest.