Geology and Mineralogy. 



id packed. The loose sands of the 



due to wetting when loose and packed. The loose sands of the 



Wisconsin River shrink in volume -nu.i, and -ol (>7 ( two speri- 

 mens); while that of Saint Paul shrinks -0695; that of Ulo.-k 

 Island, R. I., -0788, and that of Newport, U. I., -1352. These 

 invent igations of different sands were made in order to ascertain 



2. Ice ir,,rh >,<„r ,/,,;,,,/ ,„> //, X. „■,;, „„,//,„',,/. —.Mr. S. Mixne 

 gives many valuable fact's on modern ice-work in Newfoundland 

 in a paper in the Geological Magazine for September last, from 

 which the following are here cited. 



Ice forms on the shores from the spray and occasional snows, 



em paik s t >, , i , i i li . 



shght den, <t i, o, 'porti,,,,, 



! ,f the main land. He stated thai 'he Shet- 



land and the Faroe Isles were orer- topped by the Scandinavian 

 we in its onward march toward the Atlantic. 

 During : 



■v. In the north island 

 of Unst, the direction of the strife, the bowlders on the surface, 



