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Art. XYII. — Review of the New York Geological Reports.* 



The geological survey of this vast state is at length completed, 

 and the final Reports of the State geologists have passed through 

 the press, with the exception of the volume on Palaeontology. 

 The zoological volume of this series has already fallen under 

 our notice, (vid.'ante, Yol. xlv, p. 397,) and the mineralogical 

 division is also before our readers in the present number, (see p. 

 25.) Our present intention is to make a rapid survey of the gen- 

 eral scope of the four volumes of purely geological matter which 

 we have before us, comprising the labors in each of the four great 

 original divisions of the state ; while we reserve for the future, 

 a review of the volume on palaeontology by Mr. Hall, as well as 

 any more particular mention of the individual reports now under 

 consideration, which it may be desirable to make. 



A word upon the mechanical execution of the work before en- 

 tering on its details. The typography is large and tolerably clear, 

 although a punctilious printer would, perhaps, think it sometimes 

 "muddy." The wood-cuts are done generally very well and some 

 of them are unexceptionable ; so are some of the large fossils in 

 lithograph, of which we would particularly notice plates 19 and 20 

 of Mr. Mather's volume, which are admirably managed. Many of 

 the sectional plates, however, lack neatness, although doubtless 

 sufficiently good for the object. An enumeration of the sections 

 and plates, would be alike tedious and unprofitable. Separate 

 from the volumes, is a geological chart three and a half feet by 



* Natural History of New York, Part IV. Geology, Part I, comprising the 

 Geology of the First Geological District. By William W. Mather, Prof. Nat. 

 Hist, in Ohio University. Albany, Carroll & Cook, 1843. 4to, pp. 706, illustrated 

 with 46 colored sections, views and figures of fossils, and numerous wood-cuts. $4. 



Natural History of New York, Part IV. Geology, Part II, comprising the Sur- 

 vey of the Second Geological District. By Eeenezer Emmons, M.D., Prof. Nat. 

 Hist, in Williams College. Albany, W. & A. White and J. Visscher, 1842. 4to. 

 pp. 437, with 17 plates of geological sections, fossils and views. $4. 



Natural History of New York, Part IV. Geology, Part III, comprising the Sur- 

 vey of the Third Geological District. By Lardner Vanuxem. Albany, VV. & A. 

 White and J. Visscher, 1842. 4to, pp. 306, with 80 wood-cuts of fossils and sec- 

 tions. $4. 



Natural History of New York, Part IV. Geology, Part IV, comprising the Ge- 

 ology of the Fourth Geological District. By James Hall. Albany, Carroll & 

 Cook, 1843. 4to, with numerous plates and wood-cuts. $4. 



