Synopses of Subjects taught in the Geological Class, College of Physical Science, Newcaslle-on-Tyne, University of Durham

Abstract

THESE Synopses are most comprehensive, and will we are sure, be of some value to students and science-teachers. They embrace the subjects taught in the junior and senior divisions of Dr. Page's class. In the former division the subjects follow each other thus:—Physical Geology, Elements of Biology, Physical Geology and Lithology, and Descriptive and Historical Geology Under the heading of “Senior Division,” we find Physical Geology and Mineralogy, Mineralogy, Descriptive Geology and Paleontology, Palaeontology, and Economic Geology. The Synopses are characterised by the same clearness and precision for which Dr. Page's text-books are so justly noted. On glancing over the pages, we were surprised to find in the “Tabular Synopsis of European Formations” a “Metamorphic System” underlying the Lauren-tian, and an “Azqic Cycle,” preceding the Pateozoic. Now there may be a Metamorphic System of older date than the Laurentian rocks, and strata deposited during “Azoic” times may also exist; but at present we have no knowledge either of the one or the other. Murchison, we thought, had settled once and for ever that the crystalline schists of the Scottish Highlands were of post-cambrian age. Synopses of Subjects taught in the Geological Class, College of Physical Science, Newcaslle-on-Tyne, University of Durham. By David Page (Edinburgh and London: Messrs. Blackwood.)