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Canada during 1899," a list of papers, arranged alphabetically under 

 authors, published in 1899. 



The Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 

 No. 19, 1901, contains papers on Cambrian Fossils from Cape 

 Breton, by G. F. Matthew ; on a new genus {Acrotliyra) of Etche- 

 minian Brachiopods, from the Eo-Pal£eozoic of Cape Breton, by the 

 same — it is near Acrotreta ; and on the physiographic origin of our 

 Portage Routes, being a note on the physiography of New Bruns- 

 wick, by W. F. Ganong. 



Sir Archibald Geikie has recently issued a third edition of his 

 well-known work on " Scenery in Scotland," viewed in connection 

 with its Physical Geology. 



According to the Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical 

 Society, the York Museum has acquired a collection of rocks and 

 minerals which belonged to the late Professor Piazzi Smyth. No 

 new fossils were purchased during 1900. 



From the Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society, we 

 learn that Mr. Beeby Thompson has assisted in the arrangement of 

 the collection of local fossils, and has presented a series found during 

 the cutting of the Great Central Railway in that neighbourhood. 



The geology of the Isthmus of Panama forms the subject of a paper 

 by 0. H. Hershey in the Bull. Dept. Geol. Univ. California, vol. ii, 

 No. 8, 1901. The author inclines to the belief that the earliest 

 stratified rocks are of Jurassic age ; the next, the Montijo conglomerate, 

 seems to be of early Cretaceous age ; while between this and the 

 Tertiary basal conglomerate come the Santiago sandstone and shale. 

 The fossils apparently are too poor to allow of exact determination 

 at present. The Tertiaries and the Pleistocene seem well developed, 

 and there has been a recent depression of the coastal land, especially 

 on the Pacific side. A curious fact mentioned by the author is 

 that about a third of the paving blocks in the town of Santiago, 

 whose population is about 6,000, are silicified wood of pre-Pleistocene 

 age. This paper is really a supplement to that published by 

 R. T. Hill, in 1895, in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, vol. xxviii. 



The Report of the Bristol Museum for 1890 notes the acquisition 

 of a large number of fossils from the Great Oolite of Minchinhampton, 

 and a cast of the Arcli^opteryx. 



Mr. R. a. Buddicom reprints from the Border Counties Advertiter 

 for last December, a short article which states that the collections 

 at the Shrewsbury Museum have been entirely remounted and 

 rearranged by himself and Dr. Callaway. We are glad to hear it, 

 and hope that Owen's type-specimen of Ehynchosaurus is now better 

 cared tor than it was a few years ago. 



In the Proc. Cotteswold Nat. Field Club, vol. xiii, pt. 3, S. S. 

 Buckman reports the excursions for 1899 from the point of view 

 of the features of rivers and their valleys ; in part -1 (1901) the 

 same author writes on Homoeomorphy among Jurassic Brachiopoda, 

 a paper we hope to notice in due course. 



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