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chiefly derived from the destruction of Cretaceous strata, and in places 

 abound in fossil bones and plants, usually in a fine state of preservation. 

 The bones have been usually found in excavations for wells, at depths 

 varying from twenty to sixty feet below the surface, and consist of genera 

 closely allied to, or identical with Titanothertum, Rhinoceros, Equus, and 

 Crocodilus. Among the plants are several species of palms, a fine collec- 

 tion of which has been made by Dr. Gideon Lincecum, of Long Point, 

 Washinston Co., and by him presented to the State cabinet. 



The Miocene beds are surmounted at some localities, as at Hidalgo 

 Falls, with a pebbly deposit cemented with ferruginous matter into a 

 coarse pudding-stone or conglomerate. This deposit has yielded in more 

 or less abundance the bones of Mastodon, Elephas, Megalonyx, Equus 

 (E. fossilis), Crocodilus, and Testudo. 



The collections of the Texas Survey are rapidly increasing in all the 

 departments. The series of Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils are already 

 very extensive, and when properly studied will throw much light on 

 some disputed points in the Geology of Texas and New Mexico. 



Donations to the library were received as follows : 



Bull. Amer. Ethnolog. Soc, and Report on the Huacas or Ancient 

 Graveyards of Chiriqui, read before the Ethnolog. Soc. by J. King Mer- 

 rit, M.D., N. York, I860,— from the Ethnolog. Soc; Bull, de la Soc. Imp. 

 zoolog. d' Acclimation, Paris, No. 9, Sept. 1860, from the Society; Sit- 

 zungsberichte der K. K. Akad. der Wissensch, Wien, Nos. 3-5, 7-8, 10, 

 Band XXXlV.-XL., Jan. to Ap. 1860,/rom the Imperial Academy; Jahrb. 

 der K. K. Geol. Reichs., Wien, 1859, X. Jahrg., Nos. 3-4,/rom the Impe- 

 rial Society; Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. of Machester, Eng.,2d Ser., Vol. 

 XV., Pt. 2, I860,— Proc. of same, 1858-9, Nos. 1-16, and 1859-60, Nos. 1 

 -11, from the Society; Geolog. Uebersicht der Bergbaue der Oestr. 

 Monarchie von Franz Ritter von Hauer u. Franz Fcetterle mit einem 

 Vorworte von Wilhelm Haidinger, Wien, 1855, — Bericht, fiber die 

 erste Allgemeine Versammlung von Berg und Hiittenmannern zu Wien, 

 (10 bis 15 Mai, 1858) Wien, 1859,— /rom Dr. Franz Fcetterle; 7-8 Bericht 

 der Oberhessischen Gesellsch fur Natur. und Heilkunde, Giessen, 1859, 

 from the Socieiy ; Atti dell I. R. Istit. Veneto, Tomo V., Serie III., 1-7, 

 1859-60, from the Institute; Verhand. K. K. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 

 1859, IX. Band, from the Society ; Archiv. der Ver. d. Freunde der Na- 

 turgeschichte in Mecklenburg, 14 Jahrg., Neubrandenburg, 1860,/rom the 

 Society; Mittheil. aus dem Osterlande, XV. Band, Heft 1-2, 1860, Alten- 

 burg, from the Society; Ueber die Wiirme-Entwicklung in der Pflan- 

 zen, deren Gefrieren und die Schutzmittel gegen dasselbe, von H R. 

 Goeppert, Breslau, 1830, — Uber die Flora der Silur. Devon, und unteren 

 Kohlen Form, oder des sogenannten Uebergangs-Gebirges, von Goppert, 

 Dec. 1859,/rom Prof, von Goppert; Sitzungsb. der Dorpaler Naurt'orsch. 

 Gesel., 1853-6, Dorpat, from the Society ; Nachrichten von der Georg. 

 August. Univ. u. d. Konigl. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. zu Gcettingen, 1859, 

 No. 1-20, from the Royal Society; Verhand. u. Mi'theil. des Sieben- 

 bergischen Vereins fur Nat. zu Hermanstadt, Jahrg. X., No. 7-12, 1859, 

 from the Society ; Ueber die Wohnsitze der Brachiopoden, von Prof. Ed. 

 Suess, Wien, 1860,/rom the Author ; Annual Rep. of the Leeds Phil. & 

 Lit. Soc. for 1859-60,— Proc. Geol. & Polytech. Soc. of the West Riding 

 of Yorkshire for 1859, Leeds, I860,— The Physical Condition of the Peo- 

 ple in its bearing upon their Social and Moral Welfare, by the Rt. Rev. 

 R. Bickerstelh, Leeds, 1860, — Sensorial Vision, by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, 

 Bart., Leeds, 1858, from the Socieiy; Archiv. fiir die Naturkunde, Ser. I. 

 Bd. I., Lf. 1-3, Bd. II. Lf. 1-2, Ser. II. Bd. I. Lf. 1-5, 1854 59, Dorpat, 

 from the Dorpater Naturforsch. Gesellsch. ; Jahresberieht der Naturf. Ge- 

 sellsch. in Emden, 1859, Kleine Schriften VI. -VII., 1860,/rom the So- 

 ciety; Mem. de l'Acade'mie Imp. des Sciences de St. Petersburg, 7e. Ser., 

 T. II., No. 1-3, 1859, — B'tlletin, T. I., Feuilles, 7-36, from the Imperial 

 Academy ; Proc. of the Histor. Soc. of New York, Oct. 1853,— Rums of 

 Terrampua, by E. G. Squier, — Memoir on the European Civilization of 



