Notes upon the Errors of Geology. By John Kelly, Vice - President
of the R.G.S.L (Longman and Co.)—This gentleman writes like a man of science, and therefore the fact that he desires to reconcile the Mosaic cosmogony with geology ought not to prejudice one against his views. We cannot think, however, that his attempt to effect this object is at all more successful than Dr. Buckland's or Archdeacon Pratt's. Whether his strictures on the prevailing theories as to tho formation of sedimentary rocks, and on the importance which geologists attribute to palaeontology, will modify the views of men of science is another question. Mr. Kelly thinks that volcanic action has had much to do with the formation of sand, for instance, and that there has been a large displacement of blocks of the earth's crust, forced up by subterranean power and let down by gravi- tation into positions relative to the adjacent blocks which they had not at the time of their being deposited. Mr. Kelly's views seem to be grounded almost exclusively on the facts of the geology of Ireland.
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