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MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL. 



Abbott, Dr. C. C. The Stone Age in New Jersey. Smithsonian 

 Report for 1875, pp. 246-389 ; 223 figures in 58 plates (unnum- 

 bered). 



Describes and figures a great number of flint and other implements. 



Adams, W. H. D. Beneath the Surface ; or, Wonders of the Under- 

 ground World. 8vo. 



Agassiz, Prof. L. ^ Geological Sketches. Second Series. Pp. 230. 

 12mo. Boston. 



The chapters are on The Glacial Period, The Parallel lloads of Glen 

 Roy in Scotland, The Ice Period in America, Glacial Phenomena in 

 Maine, and The Physical History of the Valley of the Amazon. G. A. L. 



Anon. " Feldspar " and " Feldstone " versus " Felspar " and " Fel- 

 stone." Phil. Mag. ser. 5, vol. i. pp. 567-569. 



Shows that " Feldspar " and " Feldstone " is the original and right 

 way of spelling those words ; and recommends British mineralogists to 

 resume the use of the " d." " Felsitc," on the other hand, is an old 

 word used in all lands. F. D. 



. [Nemos.] Man — Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and several other 



Races not inconsistent with Scripture, London and Duhlin. 



. The Origin and Development of Man. Westminster Review^ 



n. 8. no. 97, pp. 62-92. 



. [H. W.] The Stone Age in Great Britain. Leisure Hour, 



1876, pp. 726-728 and 741-744 ; 17 woodcuts. 

 Popular description of Neolithic and Palaeolithic weapons and imple- 

 ments. 



Binney, E. W. On some Bronze Coins found sixty years ago under 

 a Peat Bog at Misterton Car, in Notts. Proc. Lit. Phil. Soe. 

 Mancli. vol. xv. p. 5. 

 Of the age of Otho, in a peat-bog 15 feet deep. At the base trunks 

 of yew and oak occurred. 



. On Boulder Stones in the Manchester Drift. Proc, Lit. Phil. 



Sac. Manch. vol. xv. p. 71. 

 Comments on the importance of preserving boulders from the Glacial 

 Drift, and the necessity of placing them in positions of safety. 



