a _ Scientific Intelligence. i 
the time when northern and middle Germany had the features : 
and climate of a steppe. Hence too the mountains and hills of } 
South Bohemia and Moravia may be supposed to have been the 
center from which forests advanced gradually in every direction 
over the great Diluvial Steppe of Europe north of the Alpine 
9. Geology of Kansas; by Professor B. F. Mupex. — The 
Report of the State Board of Agriculture of Kansas, for the 
the Drift (some of whose bowlders are of large size), Tertiary beds, 
Cretaceous of the Niobrara, Benton and Dakota divisions, and the 
Carboniferous, Sub-carboniferous and Permian. Professor Mudge 
collected a large part of the fossil plants from the Dakota group 
10. Geological Report of Indiana for 1878; by E. T. Cox, a 
sisted by Professor J. Cotrerr and Dr G. M. Leverre.—This 
new volume contains special reports on the geology of bile be 
County, Harrison County, and Crawford County, besides a genera 
r 
Cements, Glacial Drift, Archeolo , witha list of the Ferns, Mosses, 
Hepatice and Lichens of WayaeU i 
ae ora R. Owen bas a paper on ‘the “Restoration of Leiodon 
pte te *in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, July, 
Ill. Borany. 
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y issued as a pamphlet of 25 pages. 
