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MARLATT, Charles L.— Continued. 



of t)(>th racos is indicated, and throe new 

 seventeen-year and three new thirteen-year 

 brot)ds are designated. 



A fonsideration of tlie validity of 



the old reeordn ))earing on the distribu- 

 tion of the broods of the Periodical 

 Cicada, with particular reference to the 

 occurrence of broods vi and xxiii in 

 1898. 



null. Div. EnL, U. S. Dcpl. Agric. (new 

 series), No. 18, 1898, pp. 59-78. 

 Points out the sources of error in the old 

 records, describes the work undertaken in 

 the case of broods x.xiii and vi in 1898, and 

 concludes with a list, by States and Counties, 

 of the occurrence of these broods in the year 

 named. The author also gives a list of the 

 persons reporting on these broods, with an 

 indication of the nature of the report received. 



An investigation of applied ento- 

 mology in the Old World. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv. No. 3 (issued May 

 24, 1899), pp. 26.5-291. 

 Summarizes the writer's experience in the 

 cour-se of several months' investigation of the 

 practical work in entomology in various Euro- 

 pean States. 



Fitch's Cotton Scale Insect. 



Enlomoloykal News, x. No. 5, May, 1899, 

 p. 146. 

 Discusses the scale insect described by Dr. 

 Fitch as Aspidiolus gossypii, and shows from 

 examination of the original .specimen received 

 from China that it is not an Aspidiolus at all, 

 but an Alfurodes. The literature of the sub- 

 ject is discussed. 



Some sources of error in recent work 



on Coccidae. 



Science (new series), x, June 16, 1899, 

 p. 835. 

 Points out various characters in scale in- 

 sects, particularly the Diaspina, which have 

 mistakenly been made the basis of new 

 species and varieties. 



MASON, Otis Tufton. 

 American zootechny. 



Aboriginal 



A7n. Anthropologist (new series), i, No. 1, 

 Jan., 1899, pp. 45-81, pis. 4. 

 A study of the aboriginal industries associ- 

 ated with the animal kingdom on the Amer- 

 ican continent before its discovery by the 

 whites. In a word, aboriginal American 

 zootechny embraces every phase of Indian 

 life growing out of the connection between 

 man and the beasts of the Western Hemi- 

 sphere in pre-Columbian times. 



MEARNS, Edgar A. Descriptionsof two 

 new birds from the Santa Jiarbara 

 Islands, Southern California. 



Auk, XV, No. 3, July, 1898, pp. 258-264. 

 Cnrpodnras clemcntis and Lnnins ludovicia- 

 uiis (uilh<iin/i are described. 



Notes on the mannnals of the ('ats- 



kill Mountains, New Y(»rk, witli gen- 

 eral remarks on the fauna and llora of 

 the region. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi. No. 1147, Nov. 

 4, 1898, pp. 341-360, figs. 1-6. 



MERRILL, George Perkins. A trip 

 across Lower California. 



Osprey, in, Oct., 1898, pp. 20-25, pis. 1-5. 

 A popular review of an article on the 

 "Geology and natural history of Lower Cali- 

 fornia," published in the Annual Report of 

 the U. S. National Museum for 1895. 



Some little-known American orna- 

 mental stones. 



Am. Architect and Building News, LXII, 

 Dec. 10, 1898. 

 A paper read before the thirty-second an- 

 nual convention of the American Institute 

 of Architects, Washington, October, 1898. 

 The paper was also printed in abstract in 

 other journals. 



Description of residual rocks and 



desert varnish. (Educational series of 

 rocks. ) 



Bull. U. S. Gcol. Surv., No. 1.50, 1898, pp. 

 376-385 and 389-391. 

 Describes, micro.scopically and chemically, 

 residual .'iand from granite (District of Colum- 

 bia), and from diabase (Medford, Mass.); 

 residual clay from feldspathic rock (Hoekes- 

 sin, Del.), and from limestone (Virginia). 

 The brown coating on quartzite pebbles, 

 called "desert varnish," from the Tooele Val- 

 ley, Utah, is also described. 



The physical, chemical, and eco- 

 nomic properties of building stones. 



Eep. Qcol. Surv. of Maryland, ii. Part ii, 

 1898, pp. 39-123. 

 The article forms the introductory chapter 

 to a general report on the "Building and 

 decorative stone-s of Maryland, containing an 

 account of their properties and distribu- 

 tion," by George P. Merrill and Edward B. 

 Matthews. 



— Marbles and granites.^ 



Nature and Art Mag., i. No. 4, May, 1898, 

 pp. 12.5-129. 

 A popular article for general readers. 



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