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Two volumes are yet to appear on the Fossils of the various rocks, by 
James Hall. This subject is a vast one; and it is alike honorable to 
the state and of great importance to the science of geology, that it 
promises to be carried out with the same completeness which has thus 
far characterized the whole series of Reports. 
Besides these, there are to be two volumes on the Botany of the State 
by Dr. J. Torrey, and one on Agriculture, Insects injurious to vegeta- 
tion, &c. by E. Emmons. 
& 6. Essay on Guano, by J. E. Tescuemacuer, pp. 51, 8vo, Boston ; 
describing its properties and the best method of its application in agri- 
culture and horticulture, with the value of importations from different 
localities, founded on actual analyses and on personal experiments upon 
numerous kinds of trees, vegetables, flowers, and insects in this climate. 
7. Reports on the Bear Mountain Railroad ; by Epwin F. Jonnson 
and Wiiu1am R. Casey, Civil Engineers: and on the Coal and Iron 
Ores of the Bear Valley Coal Basin; by James Hatt, with maps, 
profile, and geological cross section. Also an appendix, containing the 
charter of the company and statistics of the coal trade of the United’ 
States and Great Britain. pp. 88, 8vo. New York, 1845. 
8. Boston Journal of Natural History, vol. v, No. 2, 1845.—Dis- 
section of a Sperm Whale, and other Cetaceans, by J. B. 8. Jackson.— 
* Musci of Eastern Massachusetts, by J. L. Russell.—Descriptions and 
figures of the Araneides of the United States, by N. M. Hentz.—De- 
scriptions of some new Insects of the United States, by J. L. Le Conte. 
—Plants from Texas, with descriptions of some new species, by. G. 
Engelmann and A. Gray.—Descriptions of the Fishes of Lake Erie, 
the Ohio River, and their tributaries, by J. P. Kirtland—New Fossil 
Footmarks, by J. Deane.—New species of Marine Shells of the United 
States, by H. C. Lea.—New Shells from the coast of Africa, by A. A. 
Gould.—Note on Melocactus viridescens, by J. E. Teschemacher.— 
Notice of two species of Linguatula, by J. Wyman. This number 
contains 14 plates beautifully executed. 
9. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences for November 
and December, 1845, (vol. ii, No. 12.)—p. 299, New Fossil Footprints, 
by A. T. King, (see notice of the same, p. 268 of this volume.)—p. 
300, A new species of Parus (P. septentrionalis) from the Upper Mis- 
souri, by E. Harris.—Description of new species of Coleoptera of the 
United States, by F. E. Melsheimer.—p. 318, Examination and analyses 
of the alluvial soil of the Nile, from Korosco in Nubia, by W. R. Johnson. 
This number closes the second volume of the Proceedings of the 
Academy ; the title-page and Index will be issued with the first num- 
ber of the third volume. By a notice accompanying the number, the 
public are informed that complete copies of the Proceedings may be 
procured for $1 50a volume. The Journal of the Society, which now 
