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American Journal of Science " has appeared 

 recently a paper by him on the Relation of 

 the Uppermost Cretaceous Beds of the Eastern 

 and Southern United States, and in "The 

 American Geologist " another on The Fora- 

 miniferal Origin of Certain Cretaceous Lime- 

 stones and the Sequence of Sediments in North 

 American Cretaceous. 



The little Hand-Book of Precious Stones, 

 by M D. Rotlischild (Putnam, $1), gives a 

 brief sketch of the properties of each min- 

 eral used in jewelry. The specific descrip- 

 tions are introduced by directions for recog- 

 nizing and determining the characters by 

 which the quality of precious stones is ascer- 

 tained. A table of hardness and specific 

 gravity is appended. 



Three memoirs on Meteoric Iron, by 

 George F. Kunz, relate respectively to a 

 mass weighing VS\ ounces, which was found 

 on Linnville Mountain, N. C, about 1882 ; 

 a mass of 25*61 pounds weight, which was 

 found in Laramie County, Wyoming, in Jan- 

 uary, 188V ; and the Johnson County (Ar- 

 kansas) mass, which fell in 1886, and is note- 

 worthy as having been the largest mass ever 

 actually seen to fall. It weighed 107-2 pounds. 

 Physical descriptions, chemical analyses, and 

 photographic illustrations of the stones are 

 given. Another paper by Mr. Kunz includes 

 *' Mineralogical Notes " on " Phenacite from 

 Maine," " Quartz Pseudomorphs after Spo- 

 dumene," " A Remarkable Variety of Trans- 

 parent Oligoclase," "Apatite from near Yon- 

 kers, N. Y., " Cyanite from North Carolina," 

 and an " Aragonite Pseudomorph." 



A valuable contribution to the study of 

 the structure of the crinoids is given in a 

 paper entitled Discovery of the Ventral 

 Structure of Taxocrinus and Haplocrinus, 

 and Consequent Modifications in the Classifi- 

 cation of the Crinoidea, by Charles Wachs- 

 muth, of Burlington, Iowa, and Frank 

 Springer, of Las Vegas, N. M. The descrip- 

 tions are supplemented by excellent plate 

 illustrations. 



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Billings, John S., M. D., and colahorers. The 

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Bonham, J. M. Railway Secrecy and Trusts. 

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Illinois, Statistics of Coal in, 1889. Springfield. 

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Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames. 

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James, Joseph F., Washington. On "Lauren- 

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