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Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by Professors Riicker and Thorpe, 



Terrestrial Magnetism, Vol. I, No. 3, pp. 10, 105-146. Chicago, 1896. 

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Mines, Univ. Wyoming, Petroleum Ser., Bull. i,pp. 22-47. Laramie, 



1896. 

 — Smith, E. A. Geol. Surv. of Alabama, Bull. V, 197 pp., 3 plates. Mont- 

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W. M. Brewer ; Sup. notes on the most important varieties of meta- 



morphic or crystalline rocks, by E. A. Smith, Geo. W. Hawes, J. M. 



Clements, and A. H. Brooks. 

 — Smith, George Otis. Geology of the Fox Islands, Maine. — Pam., 76 



pp., I pL, map. Skowhegan, 1896. 

 — Smith, J. Perrin. Classification of marine trias. — Journal Geology, 



Vol. IV, pp. 385-398. Chicago, 1896. 

 — Steinman, Gustav. Die Spuren der letzten Eiszeit im hohen Schwartz- 



walde. — Separat-Abd. aus d. Freiburger Universitats-Festprogramm, 



pp. 187-226. Freiburg, 1896. 

 — Taylor, Frank B. Correlation of Erie-Huron beaches with outlets 



and moraines in southeastern Michigan. — Bull. Geol. Soc. America, 



VIII, 31-58, I pi., 1897. 

 — Utah University Quarterly, Vol. Tl, No. 2, pp. 73-136. Salt Lake, 1896. 



Containing : The great Salt Lake, past and present, J. E. Talmage ; 



some of the crystalline rocks of Salt Lake and Davis counties, Utah 



W. D. Neal. 

 — Walcott, Charles D. Seventeenth Ann. Rept., Director U. S. Geol. 



Survey, 1895-6. — Administrative papers, 200 pp., 1896. 

 — Weeks, F. B. Bibliography and index of North American geology, 



palaeontology, petrology, and mineralogy for 189I. — Bull. U. S. Geol. 



Surv., No. 135, 141 pp. Washington, 1896. 

 — Whitney, Milton. Texture of some important soil formations. — U. S. 



Dept. Agri., Div. of Agri. Soils, Bull. 5, 22 pp., 34 pi. Washington, 1896. 

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