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Charles D. Walcott. Tbe Tacouic System of Emmons, and the use of the name 

 Tacouic in Geologic Nomenclature. 



Amer. Jour. Sci., xxxv, pp. 229-242, 307-327, 394-401. Thirteen figures and map. 

 Statement of principles of geologic nomenclature. Description of the Taconic aiea, includ- 

 ing a hrief historical review. Description of the geology as known at present, and as known 

 to Dr. Emmons. In Part ill the subject of nomenclature and the use of the name " Taconic'' 

 and " Cambrian" are discussed, a classification of the Cambrian rooks is given, and the con- 

 clusion reached that the name Taconic should be dropped in geologic nomenclature. 

 LssTEii F. Waiid. Report on the Department of Plants in tbe U. S. National 

 . Museum, 1885. 



Iteport of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885 (1886), Part ii, pp. 135, 136. 

 Lester F. Ward. Remarks on Lesquereux's criticisms of the Synopsis of the Flora 

 of the Laramie Group. 



Anier. Jour. Sci., xxxiv, 3d series, December, 1887, pp. 488, 489. 



Points out the greater abundance of palms in the southern than in the northern (Fort Union) 

 Laramie deposits, and defends the Senonian age of certain of the Credueria beds of Europe. 

 Lester F. Ward. Remarks on Dr. Welling's paper on the Law of Malthus, read 

 before the Anthropological Society of Washington, February 1, 1887. 

 The American Anthro2)ologist, I, No. 1, January, 1888, pp. 21-23. 



The Malthusian law applicable to the animal kingdom below man, as shown by Darwin, who 



has simply applied it to it, but not applicable to man himself, in consequence of the great 



devolopraent in him of the psychic faculty whereby he controls the rest of nature and makes 



himself an exception to its laws. 



Lester F. Ward. Review of W. C. Williamson: On the Organization of the Fossil 



Plants of the Coal Measures, Part xiii. 



Amer. Jotw. Sci., xxxv, 3d series, March, 1888, p. 250. 

 Lester F. Ward. Review of C. T. Stockwell on The Evolution of Immortality 

 or, Suggestions of an Individual Immortality based upon our Organic and Life 

 History. 



Public Opinion, Washington and New York, iv, March 24, 1888, p. 592. 

 Lester F. Ward. Some Social and Economic Paradoxes. 

 Science, xi, April 13, 1888, pp. 172, 174-176. 



Discusses and defends the following paradoxical propositions: (1) The artificial is superior 

 to the natural; (2) The arbitrary control of the social forces is economical; (3) Reforms are 

 chiefly advocated and brought about by those who have no personal interest in them ; (4) Dis- 

 content increases with the improvement of the social condition; (5) The means of subsistence 

 increases more rapidly than population; (6) Capital is more effective than labor in the pro- 

 duction of wealth; (7) "Wages are drawn from products, not from capital : (8) Profits rise with 

 wages; (9) Prices fall as wages rise ; (10) Rents rise with wages ; (U) A reduction of the hours 

 of labor tends to increase production ; (12) The reduction of hours tends to increase wages. 

 Charles A. White. Report on the Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Meso- 

 Cenozoic) in the U. S. National Museum, 1885. 



Eeport of the Smithsonian ln.ititution, 1885 (1886). Part ii, p. 133. 

 Charles A. White. Contributions to tbe Paleontology of Brazil. (With Portu- 

 gese translation by Prof. Orville A. Derby.) 



Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, vii, pp. 1-273. Plates 1-28. 

 Also published as a separate. 

 Charles A. White. On the relation of the Laramie Group to earlier and later 

 Formations. 



Am. Jour, Sci., xxxv, 3d ser., June, 1888, pp. 432-438. 

 Charles A. White. On the occurrence of later Cretaceous deposits in Iowa 



Am. Geologist, i, No. 4, April, 1888, pp. 221-227. 

 Charles A. White. Mountain Upthrusts. 



Am. Naturalist, xxn. No. 258, May, 1888, pp. 399-408. Three figures. 

 Charles A. Whitk. On Hindeastrea, a new generic form of Cretaceous Astrajidse. 



Geological Magazine, London, v, No. 8. New Series, No. 290, December 3, pp. 362-364. 

 Thomas Wilson. Epitome of the History and Condition of the Science of Prehis- 

 toric Archieology in Western Europe. 



The American Antiquarian, ix, No. G, November, 1S87, pp. 335-342. 



Reprinted in pamphlet form under title of "Epitome of Prehistoric Archai'ology in Western 

 Europe," with the following additional chapters: Cliapter \\. France — Paleolithic Age. 

 Chapter ni. Spain and Portugal. Chapter iv. Man in the Tertiary Period. 



