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SCIENCE. 



LN. S. Vol. XVII. No. 433. 



unjust did lie not accord due praise in these 

 directions. It is only in Mr. Fowke's attitude 

 toward others, in which there is manifest such 

 a spirit of intolerance, that he is open to 

 severe criticism. 



His conclusions are that several tribes may 

 have occupied Ohio (p. 470), yet he does not 

 agree with the ' long and short heads ' theory. 



He uses the terms ' tribe ' and ' race ' inter- 

 changeably throughout his book. He says 

 mound finds and surface finds differ little — 

 a statement not borne out by field testimony. 

 Different sites present varying degrees of 

 culture, and the Turner site where Putnam 

 found so many evidences of a considerable 

 advance in art, and the Hopewell where sub- 

 stances from the Yellowstone, the Gulf and 

 other distinct points, together with beautiful 

 carvings in stone and bone, were exhumed, 

 are classed with sites which evince a very low 

 degree of culture. 



No sensible person believes in ' civilization 

 of the Mound-builders ' or that there was a 

 ' race of Mound-builders.' But to swing to 

 the other extreme and classify a tribe able to 

 construct the strange ' combination-works ' of 

 the Lower Scioto with the Pai Utes or the 

 Comanches is manifestly wrong. 



Warren K. Moorehead. 

 Andovee, Mass. 



The Minerals and Mineral Localities of Texas. 

 By Frederig' W. Simonds, Ph.D., Professor 

 of Geology, the University of Texas. Bul- 

 letin No. 5, The University of Texas Min- 

 eral Survey, December, 1902. Pp. 104. 

 In the ' Letter of Transmittal ' Dr. Wm. B. 

 Phillips, director of the survey, says : " Iti 

 view of the deep interest now being shown iff 

 the mineral resources of the state, we thought 

 it advisable to issue a special publication deal- 

 ing with the mineral and mineral localities. 

 Dr. Simonds has been engaged upon this work 

 for some time, and it is believed that the list 

 he now presents covers the entire field as well 

 as it can be done at present." 



The task Dr. Simonds set for himself was a 

 very arduous one, and it is to his credit that 

 the list ' covers the entire field as well as can 

 be done at present.' It is by far the most com- 



prehensive, and at the same time authentic, 

 list of the minerals and mineral localities of 

 Texas that has been published, and Dr. Si- 

 monds has done the state a real service in 

 putting in accessible form so much valuable 

 information concerning these particular re- 

 sources of the state. 



The minerals are listed alphabetically, with 

 numerous cross-references, and this list cov- 

 ers eighty-four pages of the bulletin. Next 

 follows ' A Summary of the Minerals of Texas 

 by Counties ' ; then notes on the scale of 

 hardness, specific gravity, streak, luster, frac- 

 ture; and the bulletin closes with a discus- 

 sion of ' The Commercial Aspects of Certain 

 Ores in Trans-Pecos, Texas,' by Dr. Wm. B. 

 Phillips, Director of the Survey. 



The work is well done, and is worthy of 

 better treatment than it received at the hands 

 of the printer. The poor quality of the paper 

 used and the numerous typographical errors 

 — errors solely attributable to gross negligence 

 on the part of the printer — ^must be a disap- 

 pointment to the author. The neglect of the 

 printer to follow ' copy ' with regard to proper 

 spacing in a large number of the chemical 

 formulae is very reprehensible. On page 72 

 the omission of the letter ' y ' in the word 

 pyroxene is inexcusably bad in a list alpha- 

 betically arranged, but the insertion, on page 

 94, of the word ' pounds ' instead of the word 

 ' points ' under the scale of hardness, is infi- 

 nitely worse. H. W. Harper. 



February 23, 1903. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The March number of the Botanical Ga- 

 zette opens with a contribution from the 

 Cryptogamic Laboratory of Harvard Univer- 

 sity by Dr. Eoland Thaxter, entitled, 'New 

 or Peculiar North American Hyphomycetes.' 

 In this, the third paper of the series, he de- 

 scribes two new genera, containing three spe- 

 cies, Heteroceplialum aurantiacuwi, Cephalio- 

 phora tropica and C ephaliophora irregularis, 

 illustrated by two lithograph plates. — In the 

 conclusion of his paper on ' Chemical Stim- 

 ulation and the Evolution of Carbon Dioxid,' 

 Dr. Edwin B. Copeland shows that metallic 

 poisons drive off CO, from the carbonates in 



