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Salaun treating of the locusts and other insects, by ALLEN 
fog 4: os ort on Hennepin County contains many valuable facts 
about the drift of the county, and also on the cha — from ero- 
. Fhe Geological Record ne ‘ists 3 an account of works on 
Geol ology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, published during the 
year. Edited by Wm. Wurraxker, B.A., F. er es the Geological 
Survey of England. 444 pp..8vo. Lo ndon, 1877.—This second 
volume of the Geological Record will be po by all who are 
interested in the progress of geological or mineralogical science. 
e notices are brief, but yet ‘they are so well prepare red as to give 
a correct idea of the contents of publications. It thus enables 
the student to survey the year’s progress at a glance, and to 
gather up references to the papers or works which he may need 
to consult in detail. i 
4. Steven Notice a wer Discovery of a new Mineral 
Speci IDEON , Ph.D. (Communicated.)—The 
ipecics here briefly deser ibed pace associated with chaleophanite 
in ochreous limonite, at the Passaic Zine oe Sterling Hill, New 
See 
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Color black. Streak brownish ea paque. 
Before the blowpipe: in the forceps Lote eam in the closed 
ube yields a little’ water. With fluxes reactions ‘for manganese 
zinc, 
The analyses lead to the _ Zn, Mn, Mn or Zn Mn. Whence 
the a is a zinc haussmanite. 
invariable cant with and close genetic relation 
to chaleophanite, I te for the species the name Heterolite, 
from éraipos, a 00) 
Jersey City, Sept. 2 1877. 
5. On some Tetherium and Vanadium Minerals ; by F. A 
Gentu.—Dr. Genth’s al ruses sa SE of three new 
Species, whose characters are here gi 
Coloradoite. No ot erystallize withons cleavage; massive, some- 
what i aaumes sometimes having an imperfectly columnar strue- 
ture. (Sma gler Mine). " Hardness about 3; specific gravity = 
the specimens neato! ed were more or less i a “as it was 
impossible to separate entirely the associated minerals. Found 
in Colorado at the Keystone and Mountain in Mines, with 
