iv CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII 
STUDIES FOR STUDENTS: The Properties of Building Stones and Methods of 
Determining their Value. E.R. Buckley - = ; - = = Ge 
EDITORIAL - - - - - - : : : J 3 a a) rs 
REVIEWS: Om klimatets andringari geologisk och historisk tid sampt deras 
orsaker, by Nils Ekholm (J. A. Udden), 188; Sveriges temperaturforhallenden 
jamforda med det ofriga Europas, by Nils Ekholm (J. A. Udden), 193; Physi- 
ography of the Chattanooga District in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, by 
C. Willard Hayes (F. H. H. C.), 193; Geology of Minnesota, by N. H. Win- 
chell, U. S. Grant, Warren Upham, and H. V. Winchell (L. M. Fuller), 197; 
The Ore Deposits of the United States and Canada, by James F. Kemp (T. C: 
H.), 201; The Fauna of the Chonopectus Sandstone at Burlington, lowa, by 
Stuart Weller (H. F. B.) 202. 
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-EDWARD ORTON. John J. Stevenson - : - - = = = = 205 
GRANITIC ROCKS OF THE PIKES PEAK QUADRANGLE. Edward B. Mathews - 214 
A NorTH AMERICAN EPICONTINENTAL SEA OF JURASSIC AGE. W. N. 
Logan - - . Sty = : = - - - - 2a 
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Reviews: A Preliminary Report on the Geology of Louisiana, by G. D. Harris 
and A. C. Veatch [John C. Branner),277; On the Lower Silurian 
(Trenton) Fauna of Baffin Land, Charles Schuchert (Stuart Weller), 279; 
The glacial Palagonite-Formation of Iceland, Helgi Pjetursson (T. C. 
C.), 280; Fossil Flora of the Lower Coal Measures of Missouri, by David 
White (C. R. Keyes), 284; The Devonian ‘‘ Lampry” Palaeospondylus 
Gunni, Traquair, Bashford Dean (C. R. Eastman), 286; Some High 
Levels in the Postglacial Development of the Finger Lakes of New. 
York, by Thomas L. Watson (W.G. T.), 289; Twentieth Annual Report 
of the U. S. Geological Survey, Mineral Resources of the United States, 
1898 (T. C. H.), 290; Les Charbons, Brittanniques et Leur Epuisement, 
Ed. Loze (W. N. Logan), 291; Cape Nome Gold Region), F. C. Schra- 
der and A. H. Brooks (C. R. Keyes), 293; Syllabus of Economic 
Geology, John C. Branner and John F. Newsom (R. A. F. P. Jr.), 294. 
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METHODS OF STUDYING EARTHQUAKES. Charles Davison - - - = BO 
GLACIAL GROOVES AND STRIAE IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA. Erwin 
Hinckley Barbour - - = : - = = = - =, 3X08) 
