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sree apparently isomorphous with stibnite, and like it in thin 
columnar groups. Color, bright paid ; of powder red, pasty 
of black like stibnite. Hardness, 2 on Breithaupt’s scale. 
sity, at 16° C, 4°81. Fuses at the first touch of the blowpipe 
flame, and gives out abundant white fumes. Cold nitric acid 
does not sensibly attack it; but warm dissolves it and a white 
sulphid and another of a black color. Reactions show that it 
contains mercury as well as antimony. An wee has not yet 
been completed, but an assay proved the pre of 10 per cent 
cury an antimon 
It is from Huitzuco, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico. Mr. 
bac has named it in honor of the distinguished aa fs tra- 
veler, Mr. Livingstone; with reference to which, he well says, 
«Al hacer esta dedicatoria he tenido presente que los bicabesharse 
de la humanidad aoa : todas las naciones, y que la humani- 
dad entera debe honr oria.” 
14. On the Piaponcenincs ia the pile hoe 4A of Utah ; by 
E. D. Corr. 14 pp. 8vo. 1874.—A part of the Report of the 
Geographical and Geological Explorations ana Surveys west of 
the 100th meridian ; sig Lieut. G. M. Wheeler, Corps of 
Engineers, U. 8. A., n charge. From the Proceedings of the 
‘Amer. Phil. Soc. of Philadelphia 
15. Annotated List of the Birds of Utah ; by H. W. Hensnaw. 
16 pp. 8vo. (Reprinted from the Ann. N. "York Lye. Nat. Hist., 
vol. xi, 1874, at Salem, Mass.)—Mr. Henshaw’s personal observ a- 
tions were made in connection with the surv ey under Lieut. 
st. 
16. Bulletin of the Buffalo Soviet y of Natural Sciences.—Vol. 
ii, No. 1 (104 pp. pa soared a ae of the Noctuide of North 
Americ a, by A. R. Grote; a catalogue of the a le ae from the 
ion “of Lake Park sbahivait, Louisiana, by 8S. V. Summers; and 
a catalogue of ng _ New England, with descriptions of new 
Fro 
species 
oe ‘An natomy of he Invertebrata ; by C. W. von Sresorp. 
ientaiatea from the German, with additions and notes, by Waldo 
I. Burnett, M.D. 470. pp. 8vo. Boston, 1874. (James Camp- 
bell. )—This is a reprint of Dr. Bu mett’s excellent translation 
of Von Siebold’s well known text-book on the Anatomy of the 
Invertebrata. It is a standard work, and, although not " present- 
ing the latest ag of — should be in the hands of all . 
zoological students. ici no f Dr. Burnett are an important 
addition to the origin 
aps of the * aig Basins, on Madison River, after a re- 
anes ce by G. R. Betcuer. U.S. Geological Survey of the 
Teoviaien, PF. V. Hayden‘ in charge——These two large maps give 
— exact positions and areas of the many mas springs, : lakes 
ge , of the Upper Madison. They are a most interesting 
aie r the geologist, Dr. Hayden has the satisfaction of seeing 
_— and valuable results flowing from the explorations under his 
