400 Scientific Intelligence. 
California Geological Survey.—All geologists, and all inter- 
sass & in the development of the resources of our country, wil 
rejoice to learn that the resumption of the Geological Survey of 
California, under Prof. J. D. Whitney, has been ordered by the 
Legislature of the State. An a. ig stg. of 2,000 dollars per 
month for two years has been made, “to mple ete the field work, 
and publications.” Besides this a deficiens spproprvamans of 
f the Senate, that the Surve “pill was ae ‘throm both 
branches of the Legislature by a large ag 
important objects to be secured b e investigations in progts ess. 
Some of the results arrived at during the past year have already 
been mentioned in the last volume of this Journal, at page 417. 
ence semicetiog > the rimordial condition and the ultimate Bptse: 
of the earth and the solar system; i! ALEXANDER WINCHELL, 
L.D., Prof. of Geology, Zoo ogy, and Botany, in the University 
of Michigan, and Director of the State Geological Survey. 460 pp. 
12mo, with many illustrations. New York, 1870. (Harper & 
student, they may attract others to the ro and aid many in 
= eee eos ght ht ur and ss of the = oe which have. 
gical nh (vol. xxi, p. 807, 1560) ia S bomorphing 6 adoli- 
nite with datolite. He cites the fact that DesCloizeaux has ascer- 
tained through optical examination the crystallization of Gadoli- 
nite to be monoclinic (Ann. Ch. Ph., IV, xviii); and shows by chem- 
ical analyses that the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to that of the 
bases is 2:3 as in the other ies above named. The obliquity 
(or angle C)=89° 28/ and I: 1=116°. 
Rammelsbe: erg also shows, by a comparison of angles, the iso- 
: 1 of D: polite and Euc Tase. Mh mkead e does not mention the 
» add that Her ootn : gets gs as 
8 since in this Journal, xvii, 215, 1854), by 
L als sn is Jourual Uh evi ed., 1854, p. 204, where 
