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Otis T. Mason. Report on the Department of Ethnology in the U. S. National 

 Museum, 1889. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution (U. S. National Museum), 1889 (18'.M), pp. 281-288. 

 R. MacFarlane. Notes on and list of birds and eggs collected in Arctic America, 

 1861-1866. 



l'roc. U. S. Nat. Mu»., xiv. No. 865, October 19, 1891, pp. 413-446. 

 A well annotated list of 131 species. 



C. Hart Merkiam. The dwarf screech owl (Megascops flammeolus idahoensis Mer- 

 riam). 



The Auk, IX, No. 2, April. L892, pp. 169-171, pi. ii. 



George Perkins Merrill. [Notes on microscopic structure of some Hawaiian 

 lavas.] 



Report of the TJ. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Appendix 14, 1888 (1890), pp. 529, 530. 

 George Perkins Merrill. Stones for building aud decoration. Wiley &, Sous, 

 New York, 1891, 8 vo., 450 pp., with 11 full-page plates and 18 figures in text. 



This work treats of matters of especial interest to architects and engineers, but the subject 

 is so handled as to make it practically a manual on the subject of stones in relation to their 

 use for constructive purposes. 



The work opens with a brief chapter on the early history of stone working in the United 

 States; this is followed in Part I by chapters ou the geographical distribution of stone of 

 various kinds in the United States; the minerals of building stones and the physical and 

 chemical properties of such stones as are utilized for general construction aud decorative 

 purposes. 



Part n is given up to a systematic description of rocks, quarries, and quarry regious. 

 Each variety of stone is taken up in its turn, its composition, its origin, structure aud gen- 

 eral adaptability for any form of work discussed, and the resources of each state and terri- 

 tory described in alphabetical order. The subjects treated are as follows: (!) the Steatites 

 or Soapstones; (2) the Serpentines or vord-antique Marbles ; (3) Gypsum and Alabaster; (4) 

 Limestone and Dolomites, both marbles and the common varieties; (5) the Minor Ornamental 

 Stones; (6) the Granites; (7) the Porphyries or Porphyritic Felsites; (8) the Liparites ; (9) 

 the Syenites; (10) the Diabases, Gabbros, Mclaphyrs, and Basalts; (11) the Diorites and 

 Andesites; (12) the Gneisses and Schists; and (13) the Sandstones, Volcanic Tuffs, and 

 Slates. 



Part ill treats of the methods of quarrying aud working; the machines and implements 

 used in stone working; the weathering of building stone; the selection of stone for building 

 purposes, and the methods employed for the protection and preservation of stone from the 

 ravages of time. 



Part iv is made up of appendices, including extensive tables showing the qualities of stone 

 as indicated by their crushing strength, weight, ratio of absorption, and chemical composi- 

 tion; a short table on the prices of stone and the relative cost of dressing; a list of some of 

 the more important stone buildings in the United States, and the dates of their erection; a 

 bibliography of works on building stone; and concludes with a glossary of terms. 

 George Perkins Merrill. The wind as a factor iu Geology. 



The Engineering Magazine, February, 1892, 12 pp. and 7 illustrations. 



In this paper the writer aims to show in a semipopular way some of the more interesting 

 and striking geological results produced by wind as an abrading and transporting agent. 

 George Perkins Merrill. A marble quarry. 



St. Xicholas, August, 1891, 2 pp., 2 illustrations. 



A brief popular account of a marble quarry in northern Vermont. 



George Perkins Merrill and R. L. Packard. On au azure blue pyroxenic rock 

 from the middle Gila, New Mexico. 



Describes the chemical and physical properties of a peculiar granular blue pyroxenic rock 

 found in nodular masses in a metamorphic limestone occurring in one of the side canons 

 of the Gila River some forty miles west of Silver City, X. Mex. 



George Perkins Merrill. 



Notes on some North Carolina building ami ornamental stones. Stone, iv. No. m, July. 1891. 



pp. 77-79. 

 Some errors of the Eleventh Census. Stone, Vol. iv, No. in, July. 1891, p. 92. 

 Notes on some uew marbles. Stone, Vol. iv, No. iv, August, 1891. pp. 109, 1 10. 

 A suggestion. Stone, Vol. iv, No. iv, August, 1891, p. 114. 



Relative abundance of the elements. Stone. Vol. iv, No. v, September, 1891, pp. 137, 138. 

 Foreign vs. American Marbles. Stone, Vol.iv, No. vi, October, 1891, p. J72. 

 Our sources of tin. Stone, Vol. IV, No. vn, November. 1891, pp. 212-214. 



