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(1.) Paleontology of the Upper Missouri, by F. B. Meek; a quarto 

 volume of between 500 and 600 pages of text and 45 lithographic 

 plates of illustrations. It is confined to fossils of the Cretaceous 

 and Tertiary periods, and is a very exhaustive treatise. 



(2.) Paleontology of Clarence King's Geological survey of the 

 40th parallel, quarto, by F. B. Meek. This Report comprises 

 about 150 pages of text and 17 lithographic plates. It embraces 

 fossils of Lower Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous ages and 

 of the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. 



(3.) Paleontology of the Report of Capt. Simpson's expedition ; 

 quarto, by F. B. Meek. Comprises about 100 pages of text and 

 5 lithograph plates. Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. 



(4.) Paleontology of the Report of Capt. McComb's expedition ; 

 quarto. Cretaceous fossils, by F. B. Meek and Carboniferous 

 fossils by J. S. Newberry. 



(5.) Paleontology of parts of Vancouver's Island and Washington 

 Territory, by F. B, Meek. About 100 pages octavo, and 6 platea 



6.) Invertebrate 

 I Survey! 



e Paleontology of Lieut. Wheeler's Explorations 

 ana surveys west of the 100th meridian ; quarto, by C. A. White. 

 About 220 pages of text and 21 lithographic plates. This report 

 embraces fossils of the Primordial, Canadian, Trenton, Subcar- 

 bonilerous, Carboniferous, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary 



(7.) Preliminary Report on the Invertebrate Paleontology of the 

 Plateau Province, by C. A. White, quarto ; about 50 pages. It 

 will embrace fossils of the Carboniferous, Jurassic, Cretaceous and 

 Tertiary periods. Among other important facts it will contain an 

 announ(^ment of the existence of open-sea marine deposits at 

 Bijou Basin, forty miles east of Denver, Colorado ; the fossils of 

 the deposit belonging to the genera Venus^ Mesodesma^ Dentalium, 

 Phorus and an OcuUna undistinguishable from the species com- 

 mon in the Vicksburg Tertiary beds. This is to form a part of a 

 report nearly ready for publication by Professor J. W. Powell, 

 Chief of the Second Division of the Geological Surveys of the 

 Interior Department. c. a. w. 



4. Geological Map of the iOth Parallel /Swrvey.— Map number 

 n, by Clarence King, Geologist in Charge, and S. F. Emmons, 

 Assistant Geologist, has been issued as authors proofs, dated Nov. 

 15th, 1875.^ — This map, which covers the Green River Basin and 



most of the Uinta Mountains, a region of great geological ir" ^ 



will be regarded as a model, as it has not been su] 

 ~icy and artistic execution by any similar work : 



-V xa lu Lwo sheets, each 24 by 33 inches, and is on a scale of four 

 miles t^ the square inch. It is the first of the series issued, and 

 will be noticed more ftiUy when the other parts are published. 



5. Depth of the North Pacific.— The soundings by the "Chal- 

 lenger" in the North Pacific as given in the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Society, No. 164, afford the following results : 



Along a line from California to the Sandwich Islands the mean 

 aepth is 16,180 feet: and the least depth, about half way, near 

 13,000 feet. 

 Am. Joux. SfiT., Third Sbribs-Vol. XI, No. 68.-F*b., 1876. 



