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the Oudtshoorn and Prince Albert Districts made with a view to the 
Selection of a Site for a deep Borehole for Artesian Waters,’ by 
Corstorphine, and ‘The Cango Cave,” by the same. Geologists will 
wish this new survey in a far-off land all possible success. C.. 
North Carolina and Its Resources. Ussued by the State Board of 
Agriculture, Raleigh, 1896. 
This is a general work intended to set forth the natural and cultural 
interests of the state. The subjects of geological interest are the 
topographic sketches illustrated by half tones, the climatic statistics, a 
geological map, a list of native minerals, a sketch of the gold, silver, 
copper, iron, corundum, mica, talc, monazite, marl, phosphate, coal, 
graphite, kaolin, and clay industries, and of the gems and gem stones 
of the state. The building stones and road material are also briefly 
treated. The work is well illustrated with excellent half tones, and is a 
very creditable book. C. 
Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. 1V, No. 
1, Part I. Proceedings and Accompanying Papers 13592 to 
7594. By C. W. Hatt, Editor. Minneapolis, 1896. 
The papers of geological interest are: ‘Notes on the Alpine 
Characteristics of the Minnesota Flora of the Coteau des Prairies,” 
by E. P. Sheldon; “The St. Peter’s Sandstone,” embracing descrip- 
tions of its fauna, including fourteen genera and twenty-eight species, 
and a discussion of its origin and correlation, by F. W. Sardeson ; 
and ‘The Fauna of the Magnesian Series with Descriptions of its 
Fossils,” by F. W. Sardeson. The large additions to the fauna of the 
Magnesian and St. Peter’s horizons gives special value to these two 
papers. Cc 
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences for 1596. Vol. IV, 
Des Moines, 1897. 
The volume contains a portrait of the late Charles Wachsmuth, 
accompanied by a memorial by Dr. Charles R. Keyes. The papers of 
geological interest are “The State Quarry Limestone,” by Samuel 
Calvin; ‘Stages of the Des Moines, or Chief Coal-Bearing Series of 
