MINERALOGY. 4.^)7 



subject, aud forniiii.i;' voluino ty of the Geology of Indin. Execpt in 

 certaiu special directions, tlie mineral wealth of this conntry is but par- 

 tially <levelo[)ed, and mncli remains to be done, j)arti(;ularly on the 

 seientiiic side. J'rogress will be stimulated and directed by this excel- 

 lent volume. A large volume has been ])repared by Li\ ersidge ' on the 

 mineralogy of New South ^Vales, being an extension of earlier i)nblica- 

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

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

 detailed scientific account of the local mineralogy. The i)aragra])hs 

 on the discovery and occMirrence of gold, diamonds, tin ore, aud similar 

 subjects will be consulted with especial interest. 



The volumes on the mineral resources of the United States for 188G 

 and 1887,2 tbe 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 ami have been 

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

 stones, by G. F. Jvunz, ma> ))e nuMitioned as of jtarticular miueralogical 

 interest. 



A miueralogical report for California for 1880 has been issued by H. 

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

 jr. Scacchi has i)nblished a list of the large number of species that have 

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

 the wonderfully a(;tive laboratory of ^'esuvius. A list of the large num- 

 ber of njinerals from the neighborhood of New York City has been pub- 

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

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

 fourth edition (1887), l)y Jan)es D. Dami. The Grundriss der Edelstein- 

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

 by the late Walter Flight (1887). The Mineral Phy.siology and Physi- 

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

 mineral classification and relarionship. A new miueralogical periodical 

 was commenced in 1887, called Pi vista di Mineralogia e Cristallografia 

 Italiana, edited by P. Panebianco, at Padua. 



CRYSTALl^OliUAPin AND rilYSlOAL :\IINERALOGY. 



Some imi)ortaiit additions have been made to our knowledge of the 

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

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



'Tlie Minerals of New South Wales, etc., l)j' A. Iviversidge, :V2Ct pp., witli a map. 

 London, IBriri, Tiiibner & Co. 



"Mineral Kesourcea of the United States, calendar year 18B6, 8i:i pp., issnod in 1H87; 

 calendar year 1H87. 8:52 pp., issued in 1888. David T. Day. U. S. Geological Survey. 

 J. W. Powell, Director. 



