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map is large and very instructive, showing, more accurately than 
had been done before, the distribution of the Bertiary and Creta- 
ceous formations, and the girt of Carboniferous and Potsdam rocks 
around the high metamorphic ridges of the summit. Some far- 
ther explorations of the mountains are required to make certain 
all the points in this distribution. 
The last thirty pages of the volume are occupied by a report on 
the Cretaceous and Tertiary plants of the region, by Dr. J. S. New- 
berry, now Professor of Geology and Paleontology in the School 
of Mines, Columbia College, New York. r. Newberry’s exten- 
great value to the science, and a notice 
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ants—one on mines and mining, the other on agriculture. TI 
papers are a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subj 
which they embrace, and merit careful perusal.” ‘ 
4. Mineralogy Illustrated ; by Dr. J. G. vy. Kurr, Prof. Roy. 
work may be of value in the study of the science. 
5. Tableau Mineralogique; by M. Apam Commander de la 
Légion d’Honneur, ete. 102 pp. 4to. Paris, 1869.—A classified cata- 
logue. of the minerals in the splendid collection of Mr. Adam, of 
Paris, with a brief statement of the character and composition of 
the Species, 
