164 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Eeport of the Chief of Engineers for 1879. 338 pages. An 

 atlas of six maps 5 also several large maps with the text. — War- 

 ren Upham. The geology of Central and Western Minnesota. 

 A preliminary report. Saint Paul, Minn. 33 pp. — Edward 

 Orton. Eeview of stratigraphical geology in Eastern Ohio, 

 from the annual report of the secretary of state, 1879. Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, 3880. pp.33. — C. G. Eockwood, jr. Notices of re- 

 cent American earthquakes. Am. Jour. Science, March, 1881, 

 p. 183. 



(Neues Jahrbuch, 1881, xi, iii, pp. 373-376.) 



B. P. Whitefield. Notice of the occurrence of rocks representing 

 the Marcellas shales of New York in Central Ohio. Proc. Am. 

 Assoc, Saratoga meeting, August, 1879, p. 297. — H. M. Chance. 

 The millstone grit in England and Pennsylvania. Am. Jour. 

 Science, February 1881, xxi, p. 137. — Andrew S. McCreath. 

 Second report of progress in the laboratory of the second geolo- 

 gical survey of Pennsylvania. J. P. Lesley, State geologist. 

 Containing communications by Professor Frazier, F. Piatt, 

 and J. P. Lesley. 438 pp. — Persifer Frazer. The geology of 

 Lancaster County, second geological survey of Pennsylvania. — 

 M. E. Wadsworth. Notes on the geology of the iron and cop- 

 per districts of Lake Superior. Bulletin of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, geological series, i, 

 July, 1880. 157 pp. — Geology of Wisconsin. Vol. in, survey 

 of 1873-'79. T. C. Chamberlin, State geologist. 763 pp.— 

 Geological survey of Alabama; report of progress for 1877 

 '78. Eugene A. Smith, State geologist, 138 pp. — C. E. Button. 

 Eeport on the geology of the high plateaus of Utah, 1880. — 

 Alexis A. Julien. On the geological action of the humus acids. 

 Proc. Am. Association, August, 1879, pp. 311-411. — W. C. 

 Kerr. The mica veins of North Carolina. Transactions Am. 

 Inst.— Mining Engineers, Feb., 1880.— J. S. Diller. The fels- 

 ites and their associated rocks north of Boston. — Proc. Boston 

 Soc. of Nat. Hist., Jan. 21, 1880, p. 385.— J. Peter Lesley. Sec- 

 ond geological survey of Pennsylvania. Eeports from 1874 to 

 1880. 



(Neues Jahrbuch, 1881, xi, iii, pp. 380-390.) 



Dr. Hawes assisted in the x>reparation of the following works, which 

 should be added in order that the list may be complete: 



A catalogue of the flowering plants and higher cryptograms growing 

 without cultivation within thirty miles of Yale College. Published 

 by the Berzelius Society, New Haven, 1878. 



A manual of determinative mineralogy, with an introduction on blow- 

 pipe-analysis, by George J. Brush, professor of mineralogy in the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. 



