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subject, aud foniiiii.i;' voliiine iv of tlie Geology of Indi.i. lOxcept in 

 certain special directions, the mineral wealth of this country is but i)ar- 

 tially developed, and much remains to be done, i)articularly on the 

 scientific side. Progress will be stimulated and directed by this excel- 

 lent volume. A large volume has been prepared by Liversidge ' on the 

 mineralogy of Il^ew South Wales, being an extension of earlier publica- 

 tions, by the author on the same subject. It is a handsomely jmblished 

 work, with a large colored map of that part of Australia, and giving a 

 detailed scientific account of the local mineralogy. The paragrai)hs 

 on the discoverj^ and occurrence of gold, diamonds, tin ore, and similar 

 subjects will be consulted with especial interest. 



The volumes on the mineral resources of the Uuited States for 1886 

 and 1887,2 the fourth and fifth of the series, are too well known in 

 character and scope to need to be described at length. They have been 

 edited by David T. Day, with the assistance of various persons in special 

 fields, and present very fully the present state of the development of the 

 economic minerals and mineral industries of this country. The tabu- 

 lated list of localities at which useful minerals are being and have been 

 mined, prepared by A. Williams, and notes on localities of jjrecious 

 stones, by G. F. Kuuz, may be mentioned as of particular miueralogical 

 interest. 



A miueralogical report for California for 1886 has been issued by H. 

 G. Hanks, and two other volumes for 1887 and 1888, by William Irelan, 

 jr. Scacchi has published a list of the large number of species that have 

 been identified or newly discovered — and in great part bj' himself — at 

 the wonderfully active laboratorj' of Vesuvius. A list of the large num- 

 bor of minerals from the neighborhood of New York City has been pub- 

 lished by the late B. F. Chamberlin. Some other miueralogical Morks 

 to be noted are the following : The Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology, 

 fourth edition (1887), by James D. Dana. The Grundriss der Edelstein- 

 kunde, by Paul Groth (1887). A Chapter in the History of Meteorites, 

 by the late W^alter Flight (1887). The Mineral Physiology and Physi- 

 ography, by T.Sterry Hunt, presents the author's theoretical views as to 

 mineral classification and relationship. A new miueralogical periodical 

 was commenced in 1887, called Kivista di Miueralogia e Cristallogratia 

 Italiana, edited by R. Panebianco, at Padua. 



CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND PHYSICAL MINERALOGY. 



Some important additions have been made to our knowledge of the 

 species which fall in the tetartohcdral divisions of the hexagonal system. 

 Cinnabar, which was long ago shown by Des Cloizeaux to belong to the 



'The Minerals of New South Wales, etc., l)y A. Liversidge, :W0 pp., with a map. 

 Londou, 188d. Triibuer & Co. 



- Mineral Resources of the Uuited States, calendar year 1886, 81:5 pp., issued iu 1887; 

 calendar year 1887, 8',V2 pp., i.ssued in 1888. David T. Day. U. S. Geological Survey. 

 J. W. Powell, Director. 



