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The present reviewer subscribes heartily to 
these words and intends no belittling of this 
brilliant book, but the fact remains that so 
much space in it has been required for the ap- 
plications of physical.chemical theory, that 
much of what we have hitherto considered 
higher inorganic chemistry has been crowded 
out, theory as well as fact, and that Erdmann’s 
book supplies those facts and those theories 
which are lacking in Ostwald’s. Every chem- 
ist should own and study both books. 
EDWARD RENOUF. 
NOTES. 
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September 5, 1774, to March 4, 1881, compiled, 
by order of Congress, by B. Perley Poore, Clerk 
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Remittance should be by money order payable 
to W. H. Collins, Chief Clerk, Government 
Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 
THE work onthe ‘Mammals of Egypt,’ left 
unfinished by the recent death of Dr. John 
Anderson, will be completed under the super- 
vision of Mrs. Anderson. 
Unpber the title ‘ First on the Antarctic Con- 
tinent’ Mr. Borchgrevink, the commander of 
the recent Antarctic expedition, has now com- 
pleted the account of his voyage in the Southern 
Cross and of the adventures and incidents in the 
land near the South Pole. The volume will be 
published very shortly by George Newnes 
(Limited). 
PROFESSOR WILBUR C. KNIGHT has published 
a large-sized block-line geological map of Wyo- 
ming in Bulletin 45 of the Wyoming Experiment 
Station, accompanying ‘A Preliminary Report 
on the Artesian Basins of Wyoming.’ 
D. K. KeIrmack has issued, through the Ge- 
brider Borntraeger of Berlin, the fourth yearly 
edition of his Taschenbuch fiir Geologen, Pale- 
ontologen und Mineralogen. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Av the 109th meeting, held at the Cosmos 
Club, January 23, 1901, the following papers 
were presented : 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 320. 
Shell Bluff, Georgia, one of Lyell’s Original Lo- 
calities: T. WAYLAND VAUGHAN. 
This locality is in Burke county, Georgia, on 
the Savannah River, about 20 miles ina straight 
line below Augusta, and about 100 miles above 
Savannah. It was examined by Sir Charles 
Lyell during his first visit to the United States 
and was first brought into prominence by him. 
Subsequently Conrad visited and studied the 
bluff, and considering it paleontologically pecul- 
jar, gave the name Shell Bluff Group to the 
beds there exposed, correlating them with the 
base of the bluff at Vicksburg, Miss., and 
placing them in the columnar section immedi- 
ately beneath the Jackson. lLaterseveral other 
geologists, including Loughridge and Professor 
W. B. Clark, visited the locality. Because of 
the prolonged discussion as to the precise posi- 
tion of the Shell Bluff section in the Eocene 
series, Mr. Vaughan visited the locality during 
December, 1900, and made a considerable 
collection of fossils. All the face of the bluff, 
something over 70 feet, except the upper- 
most 10 feet, contains a fauna identical in 
essential species with the Lisbon beds of Ala- 
bama, the Wautubbee beds of Mississippi, and 
the Texan and Louisianan Lower Claiborne of 
Harris and Vaughan. The uppermost layers 
contain almost exclusively Ostrea Georgiana 
Conrad, no fossils that could be used as positive 
stratigraphic indices being found, but it is most 
probable that this portion of the section also 
belongs to the same horizon. Compared with 
the section at Claiborne, Alabama, the section 
of Shell Bluff can be correlated with the Lisbon, 
the second horizon beneath the Claiborne sands 
proper, 7. é., it is below the Ostrea settonformics 
bed which immediately underlies the Claiborne 
sands. 
A few of the species are: Turbinalia pharetra 
Lea, Endopachys maclurii (Lea), Mesalia obruta 
(Conrad), Venericardia planicosta Lam., Veneri- 
cardia alticostata (Conrad), Corbula oniscus Con- 
rad, Pteropsis lapidosa (Conrad). Approximately 
forty species were collected. 
Trias in Northeastern WALDEMAR 
LINDGREN. 
As a preliminary, the occurrences of marine 
Trias in the western’ part of North America 
Oregon : 
