70 Scientific Intelligence. 
ig = Wuirs, papers on Judith River group Unionide and Phy- 
; Uniones and anew genus ods fresh- water Saeeronoee from 
and associated mollusks with tte 1€8 5 paloohichoutal char- 
acteristics of the Green River Cenozoic and Mesozoic; Dr. E. 
Coves, U. 8. A., notes on American Insectivorous Mammals; 
Ornithology of source of Red River of Texas; S. Aucury, cata- 
logue of land and fresh-water shells of Nebraska ; A. D. Witsoy, 
on the Geographical work of the Survey. A further notice is 
deferred to another number. 
4, Geological ate of Canada; AtFrrep R. C. SELWYN, 
Bice Report of Progress for 1875-76. 432 pp. 8vo, with 
maps and plates. 1877.—This volume opens with an "Intro- 
ductory Report, reviewing the work of the ws by Mr. 
Setwyn, after which come eae reports: on British 
Columbia, by Mr.. Serwyn; on the same region, 
AWSON; and on other western areas, by Prot. Macoun, Le 
Wuirnaves, R. W. Exts, Roserr BELL, and 8. BaRLow 3; and on 
i Ba 
rt, by C. Horrmann; on the Insects of the Tertiary at 
eee by 8. H. ScuppEr; and List of Coleoptera alloted on 
the Lower Peace and Athabasca Rivers, by Prof. ONTE, 
Mr. Selwyn states that Mr. H. G. Vennor ih ioand a large 
variety of crystalline rocks in Western Quebec and Eastern . 
Satie characterize y hat great beds "of cating, the 
with t 
that these oa. rest probly ‘inconformably on the ° “* Lower 
Laurentian or reddish 
r. Dawson describes aap region between the Cascade Range 
and Fraser River, the 52d and 54th parallels of 2 pe It con- 
tains extensive basaltic areas; porphyritic rocks of uncertain 
a e; stern beds generally if not always beneath the "banal 
are “undoubtedly Tertiary; Cretaceous rocks; besides 
gneiss, , granites, vote etc, The Report on New ett 
w, describes the Silurian etal rocks of 
the Mascarene ek “oeludi chloritic rocks, dior oa felsytes 
and argillytes. They are shown to be Upper Siluria 
5. Shifting of the earth’s axis.—Prot. Haughto eign E the- 
matica nal papas on the shifting of the earth’s axis caused by the 
elevation of the exieling continents, in the Proceedings of the 
oyal Society, vol. x p. 41. He finds by calculation ‘hat the 
displacement would pe as follows: 
Toward Greenwich. Toward Behr. Str. baichas ne sewers oe to 
Miles. Miles. 
Europe and Asia, - .--- 58-7 eee Sass 
, ks 26-9 sit 4 
North Ameri 15:2 fone 5 105°5 
South America, 19°9 a 351 a 
