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ley during the Glacial period, by Warren 

 Upham, who prosecuted the work, under the 

 direction of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, during 

 four years in Minnesota and North Dakota, 

 and by special arrangement with the authori- 

 ties concerned, in Manitoba. The Canadian 

 part of the lake has also been examined by 

 Dr. G. M. Dawson. 



The twent.y-sixth volume is an account of 

 the Amboy Clays, New Jersey, by Dr. J. 8. 

 Newberry, completed and revised, after the 

 author became unable to put the finishing 

 touches upon it, by Arthur Hollick, who has 

 also prefixed to the work a brief review of 

 Dr. Newberry's contributions to fossil botany. 

 The Amboy clays are a part of the Cretaceous 

 formation, extending across the State of New 

 Jersey from the Delaware to the southern 

 part of Staten Island, and are the seat of 

 large potteries. Dr. Newberry desci-ibes one 

 hundred and fifty-six species of plants found 

 in these clays, mostly from the middle bed in 

 the series, with remains of, perhaps, thirty 

 other species, not clearly identified. 



Volume twenty-seven is the Geology of 

 the Denver Basin, Colorado, by 8. F. Em- 

 mons, Whitman Cross, and G. H. Eldriclge. 

 The publication of this report has been con- 

 siderably delayed, as is explained in the pref- 

 ace, by discoveries made while the survey was 

 going on that made further researches desir- 

 abla The importance of these discoveries is 

 indicated when it is said that they bear upon 

 the determination of the age of the Eocky 

 Mountain uplift and the line between Creta- 

 ceous and Tertiary formations in general, and 

 upon the recognition of coal-bearing horizons 

 throughout the Rocky Mountain region. The 

 area specially treated in the report is regard- 

 ed as a type of the " foothill belt " of the 

 Great Plains. 



The twenty-eighth volume is the final re- 

 port of the Marquette Iron-bearing District 

 of Afichigan, by C. R. Van Hise and W. 8. 

 Bayley, with an atlas, including also a chap- 

 ter on the Republic Trough, by H. L. Smith. 



The Transactions of the Fourteenth An- 

 nual Meethig of the American Climatological 

 Associatlo7i, Washington, 1897, includes, be- 

 sides the address of President E. F. Ingalls, 

 on The Antiseptic Treatment and the Limi- 

 tation of Climatic Treatment of Pulmonary 

 Tuberculosis, twenty-one papers by physicians 



on subjects related to health, climate, disease, 

 and cure. One hundred and twenty-one mem- 

 bers attended the meeting. The meeting for 

 1898 is to be held in Bethlehem, N. H. 



The International American Conference, 

 or Pan-American Congress, as it is more com- 

 monly known, in 1890, recommended the 

 adoption by the Governments represented in 

 it, of a common nomenclature designating in 

 alphabetical order in equivalent terms, in 

 English, Portuguese, and Spanish, the com- 

 modities on which import duties are levied, 

 to be used in all transactions in which those 

 duties are in question and in business docu- 

 ments. The nomenclature has been pre- 

 pared, and is now published by the Bureau of 

 American Republics at the Government Print- 

 ing Office, Washington, as the Code of Inter- 

 national Nomenclature of that bureau. It 

 consists of three quarto volumes, giving the 

 terms in three orders — English, Spanish, and 

 Portuguese ; Spanish, English, and Portu- 

 guese ; and Portuguese, Spanish, and English, 

 a volume being devoted to each order. The 

 vocabularies embrace more than twenty thou- 

 sand commercial terms used in the Latin- 

 American trade, in each of the three lan- 

 guages ; and are adapted to the counting 

 room, the factory, the shipping oflfice, cus- 

 toms offices, courts, to the use of economists 

 and statisticians, and of all persons directly 

 interested in the business relations of the 

 states of the Western hemisphere. The book 

 will no doubt be of great use and extremely 

 valuable to publicists, business men, and stu- 

 dents, and may easily justify its existence ; 

 but why the publication of it should be im- 

 posed upon the Government rather than left 

 to private enterprise is a matter which one 

 imbued with American notions of the func- 

 tions of government, and particularly of those 

 of the Government of the United States, will 

 find it hard to comprehend. 



In the ninth special report of the Com- 

 missioner of Labor a social and economic study 

 of The Italians in Chicago is presented. A 

 very minute analysis is given, under twenty 

 headings, of the social and economical condi- 

 tions, literacy and illiteracy, nativity, conjugal 

 state, families, school attendance and other 

 facts, by sex, nativity, age, etc. It includes 

 data for 6,7*73 persons in all, 4,493 of whom 

 were born in Italy, grouped into 1,348 fami- 



