LITERARY NOTICES. 



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besides being capable of practical use in 

 many ways, will be serviceable in the future 

 for the detection and measurement of what- 

 ever changes of levels may take place. The 

 tides have been made subjects of observa- 

 tion, and show peculiarities, particularly in 

 the bays, which indicate that much is yet to 

 be learned about them. The department of 

 " Geological Surveys " is largely occupied by 

 a close study, by Dr. N. L. Britton, of the 

 "Archaean or Primitive Rocks of Northern 

 New Jersey," illustrated by sections and 

 colored maps, and of their minerals. The 

 " Palasozoic Rocks of the Green Pond 

 Mountain Range " are described by Mr. F. 

 J. H. Merrill ; the theory of the Triassic 

 rocks receives further discussion ; and the 

 " Yellow Gravel " of the region south of 

 the terminal moraine is the subject of a 

 special report. The department of " Eco- 

 nomic Geology " includes the reports of the 

 mines and a republication to meet frequent 

 calls for information, of a special report 

 made in 1876, on the greensand marls. An 

 account is given of the successful drain- 

 age of the Great Meadows on the Pequest, 

 in Warren County, and their conversion 

 into excellent farming-lands ; and a strong 

 presentment is made of the necessity of 

 draining the meadows of the upper Passaic. 



Foorth Annual Report of the Bu;:eau of 

 Ethnology to the Director of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. J. W. Pow- 

 ell, Director. Washington : Govern- 

 ment Printing-Office. Pp. 532. 

 The work of the Bureau has been pros- 

 ecuted on the plan of employing scholars 

 trained in the special researches contem- 

 plated, to conduct the necessary investiga- 

 tions and present results for publication. 

 Attention has also been given to promoting 

 and guiding research on the part of collab- 

 orators not officially connected with the Bu- 

 reau, and results of value have been gained 

 in this way. The principal researches men- 

 tioned in the present report are mound ex- 

 plorations in West Tennessee and Arkan- 

 sas, under the direction of Dr. Cyrus Thom- 

 as ; explorations of cave and cliff dwellings 

 in the canons of New Mexico and Arizona ; 

 Mr. Cushinjr's Zufii researches ; Mr. Victor 

 Mindeleff's researches among the Moki ; 

 photographs of aboriginal ruins, by Mr. J. 

 K. nillers; work in linguistics, by Mr. J. 



0. Dorsey ; Mrs. E. A. Smith, Dr. J. W. 

 Hoffmann, and Dr. Washington Matthews ; 

 and the compilation, in the office, of pa- 

 pers embodying the collected results of 

 field - work, in which many of the corre- 

 spondents of the Bureau have participated. 

 Several of these papers are given as " ac- 

 companying papers " to the report. They 

 are an elaborate treatise or " Pictographs 

 of the North American Indians," by Gar- 

 rick Mallory, which is profusely illustrated ; 

 " Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos, " " The 

 Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley," 

 " Origin and Development of Form and Or- 

 nament in Ceramic Art," all by William 

 H. Holmes ; and " A Study of Pueblo Pot- 

 tery as Illustrative of Zufii Culture-Growth," 

 by F. H. Cushing. The illustrations to the 

 whole volume include eighty-three full-page 

 plates and five hundred and sixty-five fig- 

 ures in the text. 



Proceedings of the American Society of 

 Microscopists. Ninth Annual Meeting. 

 Chautauqua, New York, August 10 to 

 13,1886. D. S.Kellicott," Secretary. 

 Buffalo, New York. Pp. 243. 



This volume contains, besides the ac- 

 counts of the sessions, reports, and other 

 matters of regular recurrence, twenty-four 

 papers on subjects connected with micro- 

 scopic science and manipulation. Among 

 the papers of more general interest are the 

 annual address of the president, Thomas 

 J. Burrill, on " Bacteria and Disease " ; Mr. 

 R. H. Ward's " Remarks on Making Micro- 

 scopical Societies Successful," which are of 

 interest to every one concerned in such so- 

 cieties or contemplating the formation of 

 one ; Professor H. A. Weber's " Microscopi- 

 cal Examination of Butter and its Adulter- 

 ations " ; Mr. Ernst Gundlach's " Optical 

 Errors and Human Mistakes " ; and Mr. 

 Charles E. West's relation of his " Forty 

 Years' Acquaintance with the Microscope 

 and Microscopists." 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents 

 of the Smithsoni a n Institution to July, 

 1885. Part I. Washington : Govern- 

 ment Printing-Office. Pp. 996. 



Under the operation of an act of Con- 

 gress permitting the printing of the Smith- 

 sonian reports, like those of the heads of 

 departments, previous to presentation to 



