152 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



American Entomological Society: List of Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico, by Samuel Hen- 



shaw. 162 pp., 9,238 plus numbers. 

 American Philosophical Society: Proceedings, Vol. XXVIII, No. 134, December, 1890, pp. 227 to 

 270, contains: Note on the Puqulna Language of Peru, by Daniel (i. Brinton. Vol. XXIX, 1891, 

 Nos. 135 and 136, 226 pp., contains: Vocabularies from the Mosquito Coast, by Daniel G. Brinton; 

 On the Grapevine Gas Wells, and a Boring through 200 feet of Lias, in Eastern Pennsylvania, by 

 J. P. Lesley; Possible Sterilization of City Water, by K. Meade Bache; Notes on Calospasta Lee, 

 by Geo. H. Horn; The Electrolysis of Metallic Formates, by H. S. Warwiclj; Observations on the 

 Flora of Northern Yucatan, by Prof. Angelo Heilprin; Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida and 

 Tsimshian Languages, by Dr. Franz Boas; A Mythic Tale of the Isleta Indians, by Albert S. Gat- 

 schet. Vol. XXX, 1892, Nos. 137 and 138, 268 pp.. contains: The Temperate and Alpine Floras of 

 the Giant Volcanoes of Mexico, by Prof. Angelo Heilprin; Observations on the Chinantec Lan- 

 guage of Mexico, on the Mazatec Language of Mexico and its Affinities, and Studies in South 

 American Native Languages, by Prof. Daniel G. Brinton; A Contribution to the Vertebrate Pa- 

 laeontology of Texas, by Prof. E. D. Cope; A Sketch of the Life of Joseph Leidy, M. D., LL. D., 

 by W. S. W. Ruschenberger; The Osteology of Lacertilia (with five pi.). Some New and Little- 

 known Paleozoic Vertebrates, and On the Skull of the Dinosaurian Laglaps incrassatus, by E. D. 

 Cope; Second Contribution to the Study of Folk-lore in Philadelphia, by Henry Phillips; Notes 

 on Fuegian Languages, by D. G. Brinton, M. D. List of Surviving Members of the American 

 Philosophical Society, corrected to January 9, 1892, by Henry Phillips, jr., 16 pp. 



Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 24x29 cm.. Vol. XVII, Parts I and II, 64 pp. , 

 24 pi., contains: Article I. — Description of a Skull of Megalonyx leldyi, n. sp. (with 5 pi.), by Jo- 

 sua Lindahl, Ph. D. Article II. — On the Homologies of the Posterior Cranial Arches in the Rep- 

 tilia (with 5 pi.), by E. D. Cope. A Synopsis of the Species of the Teid Genus Cnemidophorus 

 (with 8 pi.), by E. D. Cope. Article IV.— The Tribute Roll of Montezuma (with 6 pi.), edited by 

 Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Henry Phillips, jr., and Dr. J. Cheston Morris. 

 The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia: Proceedings for the year* 1887-1889, 



86 pp., numerous plates and figures; for the years 1890 and 1891, 130 pp., with plates and figures. 

 Pennsylvania Geological Survey — J. P. Lesley, State Geologist: Anthracite Coal Field Atlas, each 

 part in a cloth cover. Eastern middle. Part 3, 13 sheets. Northern, Part 3, 8 sheets; Part 4, 8 

 sheets; Part 5, 7 sheets; Part 6, 5 sheets. Southern, Part 2, 13 sheets: Part 3, 12 sheets; Part 4, 8 

 sheets; Part 5, 9 sheets; Part 6, 9 sheets. Western middle. Part 3, 8 sheets. 



Atlas to Reports HH and HHH, 5 sheets, with 56 pages of revisions and corrections to reports 

 on Cambria and Somerset counties, 1888, as an appendix to Reports H^ and H3, 1877. 



Catalogue of the State Geological Museum, Part III, 260 pp., and enumerating and naming 

 about 15,000 specimens. 



Dictionary of Fossils, 3 volumes, 1,284 pp., illustrated by about 10,000 cuts of fossils, and accom- 

 panied by 54 pages of corrections of errata. 



Oil and Gas Fields of Western Pennsylvania, Seventh Report, with additional unpublished well 

 records, by John F. Carll. 356 pp., 6 maps and charts in pockets. 



Report of Progress F3, 1888-'89: Report on the geology of the four counties. Union, Snyder, 

 Mifflin, and Juniata, with descriptions of the Clinton fossil ore mines, Marcellus carbonate iron- 

 ore mines, Oriskany glass-sand mines, and Lewlstown limestone quarries, by E. V. d"Invllliers 

 444 ppi, 2 geological maps in pockets. 



Summary Final Report, 1892: A Summary Description of the Geology of Pennsylvania, in 3 

 volumes, by J. P. Lesley, State Geologist. Vol. I, 740 pp., 90 pi., describing the Laurent ian, 

 Huronian, Cambrian and Lower Silurian formations. Vol. II, 934 pp.; including pp. 721 to 1628, 

 and illustrated with 106 plates of fossils, maps, sections, diagrams, etc. 

 A. E. Foote, M. D., 1116 Elm Avenue: The Grasses of the United States, by Dr. Geo. Vasey — De- 

 partment of Agriculture Special Report No. 63, 48 pp. 



A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grasses of the United States, Including the grass collections at 

 the New Orleans Exposition, by Dr. Geo. Vasey — Department of Agriculture Report, 112 pp. 



The Grasses and their Culture, by John Stanton Gould— Annual Report of New York State 

 Agricultural Society, 212 pp., 74 pi. 



Grasses and Forage Plants of Nebraska, by Charles E. Bessey, and Catalogue of the Plants of 

 Nebraska, by Herbert J. Webber, 162 pp. From the Report of the Nebraska State Board of Agri- 

 culture, 1889. 



Grasses of North America for Farmers and Students, comprising chapters on their physiology, 

 composition, selection. Improving, cultivation; management of grass lands; also chapters 011 

 clovers. Injurious insects, and fungi, by W. J. Beal, Ph. D., Professor of Botany in Michigan 

 Agricultural College. 472 pp., bouiul in cloth, 176 plates and figures in text. 



The True Grasses, by Eduard Uackel, translated from Die natUrllchen Pflanzenfauullen, by 

 F. Lamson-Scrlbnor and Effie A. Southworth. 236 pp., 110 figures, and one full-page illuslratioii 

 of Bambusa arundlnacea Rotz. 



