In the GeologicalMagazine for 1877, Dec. II. Vol. IV., pp. 410, 456. there is an article on the “Geology of the Isle of Man,” by Mr. Henry H. Howorth, to which I desire to call attention. Most geologists are aware that the late Rev. Joseph G. Cumming, M.A., F.G.S., wrote a work entitled “The Isle of Man,” in 1848, and that it contains a geological description of the island. In this work, and in a papaer by the same author, published in the “Journal of the Geological Society” for 1846, vol. ii. p. 317, there is a minute description of the Carboniderous formation developed at the south of the island, near Castleton, illustrated by maps and sections.