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Animals was organized, which the secretary 

 hopes will develop into a national zoological 

 garden. Among these pamphlets is a pa- 

 per by Walter Hough, on Fire-making Ap- 

 paratus in the United States National Mu- 

 seum. It contains descriptions of a large 

 number of ways of making fire, with sixty 

 cuts of apparatus. The methods are classi- 

 fied and arranged in their presumed order 

 of development as follows : Fire-making by 

 twirling one stick on another, by sawing 

 and by plowing one stick with another, by 

 striking flint and pyrites together, and flint 

 and steel. Most of these methods have been 

 used by the Indians or Eskimos of Ameri- 

 ca. A Study of Prehistoric Anthropology, 

 designed as a hand-book for students be- 

 ginning this science, has been prepared by 

 Thomas Wilson, curator of this department 

 in the National Museum. It is a general 

 view of the subject, with a bibliography and 

 many cuts representing implements of stone, 

 bone, bronze, etc., dolmens, vessels, orna- 

 ments, and human representations. Frederic 

 A. Lucas has prepared an account of The 

 Expedition to the Funk Island, winch he 

 made in 1887, to procure bones of the great 

 auk. The bones obtained equaled in num- 

 ber all other collections combined, and a 

 thorough exploration was made of the isl- 

 and. The paper is illustrated with a picture 

 of the bird and one of its egg, a sketch map 

 of Funk Island, and diagrams. A popular 

 account of this expedition was contributed 

 by Mr. Lucas to the Monthly for August, 

 1S88. A Catalogue of the Hippisley Collec- 

 tion of Chinese Porcelains, toith a Sketch of 

 the History of Ceramic Art in China, pre- 

 pared by Alfred E. Hippisley, is now pub- 

 lished. In 1S87 this large collection was 

 deposited in the National Museum, with the 

 understanding that it should be allowed to 

 remain on exhibition for at least two years, 

 and that the museum should print a de- 

 scriptive catalogue. The catalogue occupies 

 some fifty pages, containing 438 numbers, 

 and the history of ceramic art is quite ex- 

 tended. 



Several Bulletins of the Geological Sur- 

 vey have reached us together. No. 58 con- 

 tains a paper on The Glacial Boundary in 

 the Central States, by Prof. G. F. Wright, 

 with an introduction by T. C. Chambcrlin. 

 It is occupied mostly with observations on 



the distribution of the till, but contains also 

 some facts in relation to striated surfaces of 

 rocks in place. The paper contains also 

 the evidence for and against the hypothesis 

 of a glacial dam at Cincinnati. Recent finds 

 of pakeoliths pointing to the probable exist- 

 ence of interglacial man in Ohio are here 

 reported; the relation of the loess to the 

 glacial drift, and the finding of gold near 

 the glacial margin, are also touched upon. 

 Eight plates and ten figures illustrate this 

 monograph. No. 59 is by Frederick D. Ches- 

 ter, on The Gabbros and Associated Rocks 

 in Delaware, the massive gabbro being the 

 most prominent formation in the northern 

 part of that State. The paper is illustrated 

 by a map and five figures. A Report of Work 

 done in the Division of Chemistry and Phys- 

 ics for the year 1887-'88, by F. W. Clarke, 

 forms No. 60. It contains an extended ac- 

 count of the occurrence and utilization of nat- 

 ural soda, by Thomas M. Chatard, analyses of 

 various rocks, ores, waters, and meteorites, 

 and notes on a number of other subjects. 

 No. 64 is a similar report for lS88-'89, and 

 is occupied largely with examinations of 

 minerals. No. 61 is Contributions to the Min- 

 eralogy of the Pacific Coast, by William H. 

 Melville and Waldemar Lindgren, the objects 

 of study being cinnabar crystals and other 

 specimens collected during a recent exami- 

 nation of the quicksilver deposits of Cali- 

 fornia. A Bibliography of Palceozoic Crus- 

 tacea, by Anthony W. Vogdes, forms No. 63. 

 It comprises a list of authors, a catalogue of 

 trilobites, and a catalogue of non-trilobites. 

 No. 66 is On a Group of Volcanic Rocks from 

 the Tewan Mountains, New Mexico, and on 

 the Occurrence of Primary Quartz in Certain 

 Basalts, by Joseph P. Iddings. We have 

 also received a paper by Charles A. White, 

 entitled On the Geology and Physiography of 

 a Portion of Northwestern Colorado and Ad- 

 jacent Parts of Utah and Wyoming, which 

 is to form a part of the report of the Geo- 

 logical Survey for 18S7-'S8. The district 

 here described lies round about the Uintah 

 Mountains, and the phenomena specially 

 considered relate to its geological structure 

 and to surface drainage. A colored geo- 

 logical map of the region and a number of 

 diagrams are given. 



The object of the scries of reports on 

 the Mineral Resources of the United States, 



