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morphic rocks over the plateau ‘foo ongoli m the Great Wall to 
Siberia; and a map shows that it belongs to al Eastern Siberia, the 
Yablonvi, Altan-Kingan, and Stanovoi Mts., their intermediate 
ridges, conforming to it. The period of the uplift is placed before that 
of the Coal-measures (Mesozoic). Mr. Pumpelly remarks that nyse, 
analogies are observed to exist between the Sinians and our ow 
lachians, as to structure, strike, and dip; and that as the Wma be of the 
Appalachians determined the outline of Eastern America aoe ane 
pag, oo ae the sosiite boundary of the great Asiatic 
10. ve Osservazioni Geologiche iat Rocce An thracilifere delle 
Alpi ; a Comme meer pt GELO SisMonD ‘of. di Min. nella 
Universita di Torino. 26 pp., 4to, with othe maps. Turin, 1866.— 
Prof, Sapir in this paper, treats of the age of certain stratified rocks 
curring among the metamorphic of the Alps of Savoy, which contain 
anthracite on ane of the Carboniferous age along with remains of 
animals of Liassic and Oolitic age. Sismonda concludes that there are 
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to be of the age of the Oxfordian clay. The Carboniferous plants are 
found both in the lower and upper. 
. Ueber ein Aquivalent der takonischen Schiefer ce gg vor sin 
. Deutschland und dessen geologische Stellung ; von Dr. H. B ange 
und Dr, K, Th, Lizse, Professoren in Dresden und Gera. 52 pp. 
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12. Note on the genus Pindar and other —— Starsishes, with 
descriptions of some new species; by James Hau 4 pp, 8vo. From 
the Twentieth Report on the State Cabinet of Neel History. Published 
(to page 21) in advance of Report, Nov. and Dec. 
13. Descriptions of some new species inoidea t ossils 
F from the Lower Silurian strata of the age of the Hudson River Group 
and Trenton limestone ; Haut. Printed, in advance 
by James 
Report on the State Cabinet for 1866, and issued Nov. 186 
Ill BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
1. Catalogus Sao adem exhibens Collectionem Wrighti- 
anum aliasque minores ex Insula Cuba missas quas recensuit A. 
BacH, Professor Gattingensis. ms 301, 8vo. Leipsic, 1866. (Engelmann.) 
—Although printed a year ago (the preface bears the date of April, 1866), 
the cpt mown incident to the short war which last summer w 
; such changes in Germany, in some way ~sNera until recently the} 
2 tion of this Tittle volume. It is now to be h . Wes “mame € On, 
440 Broadway, New York; and it is Gitapenaable to those botanists who 
possess any part of Mr. Wrights rich Cuban collections of botanical "2 
cimens, which are cited by the numbers under which they were distribu- 
_ ted. A goodly number of letieal or typographical errors (beyond those 
