332 A.DBXI7BA. 



explains methods of working, and cites statistics of the industry. 

 Describes associated salts. F. W. R. 



Loriol, de — , and — Chansselle. Notes d'lin voyage dans le bassin 

 houiller de la Ruhr. [Notes of Travel in the Ruhr Coal-field.] 

 BulL Soc. Indust. min. St. Etienne, ser. 2, t. iv. p. 821. 



Maestro, A. Resefia geologica de las provincias vascongadas. [Geo- 

 logy of the Basque Provinces.] Bol. Com. map. geol. Espan. t. iii. 

 pp. 283-328. 



Nichol, J. W. Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands. 



Proc. R. Soc. Edin. vol. ix. p. 113. 

 Gives an account of the volcanoes of Hawaii. 



Oppemnann, — . The Dressing of Blende at Ammeberg in Sweden. 

 Ann. Mines, ser. 7, vol. xi. p. 261. 



The ore occurs as lenticular masses in Laurentian gneissose and 

 felsite rocks. Usually there is a little galena, which in some places 

 runs as a compact mass parallel to the blende. (From abstract in 

 Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. vol. xl. pp. 276-280.) 



Potter, Charles. Observations on the Geology and Archaeology of 



the Cheshire Shore. Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane. Chesh. ser. 3, vol. iv. 



pp. 121-142, pi. iii. (general section). 



Describes 3 beds of freshwater peat alternating with marine silt and 



sand. The trunks and butts of trees in the peat are not in place of 



growth. The miscalled " submerged forests " of Hull and Selsea are 



adduced in support of the same view. Over these alternating beds 



are freshwater sands, rising above the level of some ancient huts. 



W.H.D. 



Sath, [Prof.] G. vom. Mineralogische Mittheilungen : Fortsetzung 

 XV. Pogg. Ann. F. 6, Bd. viii. pp. 387-425, plate. 



Describes: — phacolite from Richmond, Victoria; sanidine as a subli- 

 mate on the doleritic lava of Bellingen in the Westerwald ; anatase 

 from the Cavradi ; brookite from Atliansk in the Ural ; and arkansite, 

 altered to rutile, from Arkansas ; yellow augite from Vesuvius ; a new 

 crystaUographic combination of calcite from Elba ; a rare calcite from 

 Oberstein ; a crystal of Vesuvian mica and pyrargyrite from Andreas- 

 berg, Hartz. F.W. R. 



Ross, W. A. Enysite. Min. Mag. no. 2, pp. 59, 60. 

 Blowpipe-analysis of this mineral. 



Silvestri, Prof. Orazio. Das Vorkommen des StickstofFeisens unter 

 den Fumarolen-Producten des Aetna, und kiinstliche Darstellung 

 dieser Verbindung. [Occurrence of Iron-nitride among the 

 Fumarole-products of Etna, and on the artificial Formation of this 

 compound.] Pogg. Ann. F. 6, Bd. vii. pp. 165-172. See Geo- 

 logical Record for 1875, p. 258, : : ^ 



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