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its predecessor is exceedingly well got up ; we await the future 

 parts with the greatest interest. One thing we would ask of the 

 Director-General, Captain Lyons, and that is, to allow the word 

 ' Egypt ' to appear somewhere on the title-page. 



III. — Economic Geology. — Messrs. John C. Branner and John 

 F. Newsom have issued a second edition of their •' Syllabus of 

 a course of Lectures on Economic Geology," 1900, in a volume 

 printed on one side of the paper onl)', of 368 pp. One of the 

 most important things a student of economic geology needs to learn 

 is where to find and how to use information that has been published. 

 The authors have therefore given references, first, to works on the 

 general subject ; second, to periodicals in which articles are to be 

 looked for upon various economic subjects ; third, to papers and 

 reports on special subjects. Naturally in a book issued by the 

 Professors of the Leland Stanford junior University, moi'e space 

 is given to the economic geology of the United States than to that 

 of other countries. The book has a good index, and is illustrated 

 by a number of charts and sections. The compositions of minerals 

 are mainly taken from Dana. 



IV. — Canadian Geology. Sessional Paper No. 26, 64 Victoria, 

 Summary Eeport of the Geological Survey Department, for the 

 year 1900, is an octavo of 203 pages and forms an important and 

 interesting document. It has, moreover, a melancholy interest in 

 that it is the last report from the pen of the late G. M. Dawson. 

 In this report especial prominence is given to the results of field- 

 work, " thus affording an early publication of a preliminary kind 

 for any new facts obtained," an object that entitles this report to 

 especial attention. During the year 1900 twelve new maps were 

 completed and finished, and eighteen others were either in the 

 engraver's hands or in the press. Mr. James White has completed 

 his Altitudes in the Dominion of Canada, and this will shortly be 

 issued. Attention is again drawn to the inadequate safety of the 

 present Museum and offices. It is a penny-wise-and-pound-foolish 

 policy to allow such precious and costly records to continue exposed 

 to the danger of fire. After a series of reports on economic minerals, 

 a good account is given of the exhibit sent by Canada to the Paris 

 Exhibition, and the report proper opens on p. 37 with a detailed 

 account of the Yukon district. The areas explored are those of the 

 Stewart and Yukon rivers, the coals and lignites of the Klondike 

 river, and the copper deposits of White Horse. From p. 52 work 

 accomplished in British Columbia is detailed, and a map of the 

 Atliu Goldfields is appended, the geology of which is provided by- 

 Mr. J. C. Gwillim. Mr. J. M. Bull reviews the explorations carried 

 out in the Mackenzie district, after which the report deals with 

 Canada proper, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. As regards 

 zoology, the chief item of interest is the announcement that Professor 

 H. F. Osborn is at work upon the vertebrate remains collected from 

 the Cretaceous rocks of the Red Deer River, and drawings have 

 already been prepared for the report which it is hoped will soon 



