Januaby 15, 1909] 



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plan of psychological examination may have 

 the advantage of didactic simplicity, but it 

 will lead rather to the picking out of a verbal 

 diagnosis than to an understanding of the 

 meaning and spirit of the disorder of the 

 patient. 



■ The mental cases given are clear but very 

 elementary and there is very little help 

 towards finding the way, where actual difficul- 

 ties would arise. 



In a future edition the grouping and the 

 interpretation and utilization of the results 

 should be given better attention, and by using 

 different types of print the important and 

 obligatory steps might be put into contrast 

 with the matters to be used to settle less com- 

 mon difficulties. 



A. M. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES 

 The Bulletin of the Charleston Museum for 

 November comprises Notes on Taxidermy, 

 Library News, Notes from the Museum and 

 notices of The Natural History Society. The 

 sound advice is given to those interested in 

 taxidermy to practise on English sparrows and 

 not endeavor to mount a bird until they can 

 put up a good skin. The library possesses 

 some interesting portraits of former officers 

 and a bust of Baehman, 



The Museum Journal of Great Britain for 

 November contains accounts of the " Oxford 

 Museum Jubilee " and the " Museum Confer- 

 ence in Rochdale " and " The Arrangement of 

 an Egyptological Collection," by W. E. Hoyle. 

 This comprises a suggested classification of 

 exhibits and three alternative schemes for 

 arrangement, chronological, topical and ideal, 

 the latter being an effort to present a general 

 view of Egyptian civilization. Arthur Eair- 

 bank presents the plans for " The New Build- 

 ing for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston." 



The Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zool- 

 ogy, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 

 though dated September 1, has only recently 

 been received. It is devoted to a "First Ee- 

 port on the Economic Features of Turtles of 

 Pennsylvania " and is a companion volume to 

 the serpents of Pennsylvania previously is- 



sued. The report comprises descriptions of 

 all the turtles found in Pennsylvania, with 

 accounts of their habits, value as food, and 

 their beneficial or harmful character as indi- 

 cated by the plants and animals on which 

 they feed. The large amount of information 

 as to habits and the food of turtles makes the 

 paper particularly valuable. Half-tone plates, 

 mostly provided from the American Museum 

 of Natural History, are given of the various 

 species and there are also in the text many 

 most excellent pen drawings by W. E. Walton. 

 Two original plates show good series of the 

 variable and closely related species Ohrysemys 

 marginata and C. picta. Mr. Surface is to 

 be congratulated on having placed so much 

 information within reach of so many readers. 



SPECIAL ARTICLES 



THE TEXAS TERTIARIES — ^A COREECTION 



The original section of the Texas Tertiary 

 published in the Journal of Geology for 1894 

 made the Eocene end with the Frio substage 

 of the Claiborne, which was followed im- 

 mediately by the Oakville beds of supposedly 

 Miocene age. Based on this classification and 

 on the decision of Professor G. D. Harris that 

 fossils found in sandstones just north of Oor- 

 rigan were of Claiborne age, Mr. Kennedy re- 

 ferred these sandstones to the Fayette sand 

 and the overlying or Fleming clays to the 

 Frio. Larger collections from this locality 

 made later by Mr. Veateh proved the Jackson 

 age of the sandstones and this implied a 

 similar wrong assignment on our part of the 

 Frio clays. From Mr. Veatch's statement in 

 his report "Underground Water Eesources of 

 Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas," 

 he evidently considered the reference of the 

 Corrigan beds as made by Kennedy incorrect, 

 and our recent stratigraphic work on them has 

 proved this to be true. 



On the Eio Grande, Nueces and San An- 

 tonio rivers, and probably on the Colorado, the 

 original section holds, and the Frio beds which 

 carry Eocene fossils in places are immediately 

 overlain by the Oakville. In the eastern part 

 of the state, however, beds of Jackson age ap- 

 pear in places between the Frio and Oakville. 



