476 Reviews—The Biology of ilie Seashore.

THE BIOLOGY OF THE SEA-SHORE. By F. W. FLATTELY and

C. L.WALTON, with an introduction by Professor J. ARTHUR
THOMSON, pp. 336, with 16 plates and 23 text-drawings.
London : Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1922. Price 16s. net.
rPHIS is a work upon a hitherto neglected branch of bionomics,
-*- and as such we can cordially recommend it. It aims at showing
how the animals and plants inhabiting the sea-shore interact, and
how the environment influences their structure, functions, and
habits. It is well illustrated by a number of excellently chosen
photographs and drawings. The chapters that will be of most
interest to the geologist are those upon the physiography of the
sea-coast, and its plant and animal associations. The account of
the zoning on the rocky shore of Cardigan Bay is particularly
instructive, and the authors record the succession of nine species
of Trochidas and Littorinidse, and show how these are correlated
with different conditions of shore drainage and the type of rock
or soil from which it flows, as well as probably with the lime content
of the water. Among many other matters of interest investigated
by the authors and here described is the colonization of the Kiel
Canal by marine forms in a definite ecological succession.
F. H. A. M.
STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURE, AND POSSIBLE OIL RESOURCES OF THE
MIOCENE EOCKS OF THE CENTRAL PLAIN, REPUBLIC OF HAITI.
By W. P. WOODRING. pp. 19, with a map. Washington, 1922.
E United States Geological Survey has been lately engaged on
behalf of the government of Haiti in carrying out a recon-
naissance survey of the territory of the Republic : the results of
this work are soon to appear, but the present section has been
published in advance on account of the oil possibilities of the region
described, which consists of folded Miocene strata, overlain by nearly
horizontal Pliocene. Descriptions are given of the lithological
characters of the Miocene strata, which have a maximum thickness
of about 1,400 metres and are folded into a synclinorium striking
north-west-south-east. This series is called the Artibonite group,
and contains numerous shallow-water marine fossils, many still
undescribed. The map shows structures very favourable to oil
accumulation, and it is considered that exhaustive tests should be
carried out by drilling on the crests of the numerous minor anticlines.

THE IRON - ORE RESOURCES OF EUROPE. By MAX ROESLER.

Bulletin 706, U.S. Geol. Survey. pp. 152, with xix plates
(maps) and 33 text-figures. Washington, 1921.
rpHIS Bulletin is avowedly a compilation, having been drawn up
-*- as part of the work of determining the extent and position of
foreign mineral deposits for the guidance of the American Peace
Commission. It is thus liable to the common defect of such com-