I.—Geology of Weymouth, Portland, and Coast of Dorsetshire, From
Reviews—Damon's Geology of Weymouth. 511 IR, IE "V" I IE "W S. GEOLOGY OF WEYMOUTH, PORTLAND, AND COAST OF DORSETSHIRE, FROM SWANAGE TO BRIDPORT-ON-THE-SEA : WITH NATURAL HlSTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES. By ROBERT DAMON, F.G.S. pp. xii. and 250. New Edition. (Weymouth: E. F. Damon. London: Edward Stanford, 1884.) R. DAMON'S "Geology of Weymouth" has so long and so deservedly ranked as one of our best local geological guides, thaMt we heartily welcome this new edition, and more especially as nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since its predecessor was published. While Geology has made immense strides during this period, yet it is a significant and happy fact that the names of the formations remain the same as those chronicled in 1860 ; and the student is not perplexed, as he may be in some other districts, by many con- tradictory opinions on the grouping of the rocks, nor (as a rule) by finding two or three names applied to the same formations by different individuals who have written about them. The chief additions to our knowledge of the geology of the neighbourhood of Weymouth, consist in enlarged lists of the fossils, and many more particulars about the rocks. The labours of Messrs. Blake and Hudleston on the Corallian Rocks call for special mention, as, although they made seven divisions in this group at Weymouth, which would on first thoughts seem a burden to the science, yet these divisions are locally well marked, and their names are very useful in the district for those who study the beds in detail, and collect fossils from definite horizons.
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