134 Reviews — New Serials. 



VII. — New Serials. 

 rpHEUE is quite a crop of new serials devoted to geology and 

 _L allied sciences. The first is Verhandelingen van het Geulogisch- 

 Mijnhomvkmidig Genootschap voor Nederland en Kolonien, a quarto 

 published at 's Gravenhage, of which four parts appeared in 1912-13. 

 These contain papers by Waterschoot van der Gracht on North 

 Brabant Coal-fitild ; a most valuable bibliography of all the Nether- 

 land East Indies by E.. D. M. Verbeek, arranged in islands; Ursus 

 etruscus from Tegelen by E. T. Newton ; Red Flinty Clay by J. Lorie 

 and H. G. Jonker ; and Jura Erratics from Kloosterholt by J. F. 

 iSteenhuis. 



In the second, Memorie deW Istitiito Geologico della R. Universitd 

 di Padova, vol. i, 1912 (edited by Giorgio Dal Piaz), large quarto, 

 Padova, we have papers by the editor on the Geotectonics of the 

 Brenta and the Lake of Santa Croce, and on the Bathonian fauna of 

 Monte Pestello ; by 11. Fabiani on the type of Crocodilus vicetinus, 

 Lioy ; by G. Stefanini on the Miocene Mammals of Venetia; and by 

 A. De Toni on the Brachiopoda of the Ceratites trinodosus zone of 

 Monte Kite. 



The thii'd, entitled Monographias do Serviqo Geologico e Mineralogico 

 do Brasil, vol. i, 1913, Bio de Janeiro (Ministerio de Agricultura), 

 is also a quarto and is entirely occupied by J. M. Clarke's Fosseis 

 Devonianos do Parana, a valuable and exhaustive paper illustrated 

 by twenty-seven excellent plates of Trilobites, Molluscs, Brachiopods, 

 and Echinoderms, with text in Portuguese and English.^ 



The fourth new serial hails from Canada and is called Bulletin of 

 the Victoria Memorial Iluseum, No. 1, and appears to be an issue 

 from the Geological Survey. It is an octavo, is dated October 23, 

 1913, and is published at Ottawa. This contains many papers by 

 Bather, Lambe, Raymond, Wilson, and Johnston on geological 

 subjects, and by others on zoology, botany, and anthropology. 



VIII. — Brief Notices. 



1. UNDERGRotrND Water FOR CoMMEECiAi, PURPOSES. — Under this 

 title Dr. Frank L. Rector, of New York, has written a compact and 

 useful handbook of 98 pages (London, Chapman & Hall, 1913, 

 price 4s. Qd. net). Although written round American points it is 

 equally applicable to this country. Beginning with the source of 

 water, the author deals with ground water, distribution and properties, 

 springs, wells and construction, watersheds, mineral waters, chemical 

 and bacteriological examination, and appends useful rules and tables 

 of capacities of tanks, pipes, cylindrical vessels, pressures per square 

 inch, and expansion at different temperatures. A short bibliography 

 and a clear index close the volume. 



2. Paleontology for, 1912. — The Zoological Record issued by 

 the Zoological Society of London has reached its 49th volume. It is 

 not generally known that this valuable publication includes palaeonto- 

 logical as well as recent zoological papers and is of the greatest value 



^ A large number of the illustrations are reproduced in Bull. 164, New York 

 State Museum, 1913, for comparison with New York forms. 



