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heavy beds of Chemung fossils, close under the Catskill, and 
coal-beds in X, (Berea Grit of Ne ewberry). This last discovery is 
of the greatest importance to American geology. It explains the 
presence of the two coal oat on the face of the Alleghany Moun- 
tains, and the fourteen small coal beds which I counted years ago 
behind Laue of) the Peak Motsiae in Wythe County, Southern 
rer On the Devonian Trilobites and Mollusks of Eereré, Pro- 
vince of Pard, Brazil ; by Prot. C. F. 
28 pp. 8vo. From the Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. xi, May, 
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the Morgan coos gant 1870-71. The paper sage na ae 
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branch and one Tentaculite. The Reet ear are e described by 
Seine ve Dr. 0, W. C. _. Prof. Univ. Heidel berg. 
Translated and edited by. T. W, pees —_ F.G.S., = 
of Downing College, Cambridge, pp. 8vo Lond on, 
1875. (London, Field and Tuer; Philadelphi Claxton, Remsen 
& Naffeltinger). —Dr, Fuchs’s work on the Determination of Min- 
erals, which is well known abroad, commences with a c 
count of blow shat reagents ¢ a reactions. sar “ General table” 
Poe Fie “380 12mo. Leipzig, 1874. (W. Engel- 
mann.)—This work is an excellent treatise on Saxon Mineralogy. 
The descriptions og drawn up with accuracy and precision, and 
end with a full list of Saxon localities. Probably no region 80 
small embraces vn its bounds a larger number of mineral 
species-—about 300. 
7. Commelynacee et CU 'ystan dracee Bengalenses ; by C.. B. 
CLarkg, late acting Superintendent of the Caleutta Botanic Gar- 
den. Caleutta: Thacher, Spink & Co, 1874, folio—This is an 
imperial folio volume, of 135 printed pages and 93 lithographic 
plates, illustrating the Be gales: species of the two orders abo 
mentioned. Of the Vommelynucece Mr. Clarke had made a pre: 
vious study, and published a good paper in the Linnean Society’s 
Journal, in 1870, a little before Dr. Husskarl’s elaborate Commely- 
