758 ABSTRACTS 



in 1894, with a resume of the industry in previous years. The tables 

 show the production by fields, such as the Appalachian, the Central, 

 the Western, etc. ; by states and by counties in the states. They also 

 show the value of the output, and the number of men employed, and 

 the amount of time taken to win it. The result of the prolonged strike 

 in the bituminous regions is shown in a reduced production in 1894 

 as compared with 1893 of more than eleven and a half million tons. 

 The loss in labor to the miners and other employes who were thrown 

 out of employment by the strike is shown to have been the equivalent 

 of 5,167,357 men for one day, or of 17,224 men for one year of 300 

 working days. 



The effects of the business depression and general low value for 

 commodities is illustrated in the coal mining industry by a decrease in 

 the value of the product in 1894 of over $22,000,000, more than ten 

 per cent, less than that of 1893, while the amount of the product was 

 only 6 per cent, less than the preceding year. 



An interesting feature of Mr. Parker's report is a series of contribu- 

 tions from secretaries of boards of trade, etc., in the larger cities, which 

 furnishes useful information regarding the coal trade of those cities, 

 and the effects of the strike and other influences upon the movement 

 of coal from the producing to the consuming centers. 



Merocrinus Salopice, n. sp., and anothei- Crinoid, from the Middle Ordovi- 



cian of West Shropshire. By F. A. Bather. GeoL Mag., n. s., 



Vol. Ill, pp. 71-75, February 1896. 



Merocrinus is a genus of dicyclic inadunate crinoids, hitherto 



recorded only from the Utica shale of Ohio (Ulrich) and the Trenton 



limestone of New York (Walcott). The discovery of a species in the 



Middleton group, Meadow Town series of Mincop in Shropshire, 



England, is therefore of interest to American geologists. It is thus 



diagnosed: " Radials and Basals, as high as wide. Arms slender, 



bifurcating at intervals of eight or more ossicles. Brachials wider, or 



with a slight cornice at their distal margin." The other crinoid 



described and figured presents peculiar features, especially in the arms, 



but is too imperfect to be referred to any known genus. 



U. S. Geologic Atlas. Folio 10, Harper's Ferry, Virginia; Maryland; 

 West Virginia, iSg^. 

 This folio consists of four pages of descriptive text, signed by 



