220 Scientific Intelligence. 
and figures specimens of the Uintacrinus socialis of Grinnell—a 
Cretaceous Crinoi ,—and points bia some characters that were 
not distinct in Grinnell’s specimen 
3. Report of the Exploring Toe: dition from Sante Fe, New 
HSE, to the junction of the ss ee and Green Rivers of the 
eat Colorado of the West, in 1859, under the Commander, Capt. 
rive Colonel) J. N. Macoms, Cor ps Topogr. Engineers ; with the 
Geological eee of Prof. wi S. Near Geologist of the 
iferous and Triassic fossils, cake same authan and mee on 
the Cretaceous Fossils, by Mr, e ss pies The — is illustrated 
by a number of excellent lithographs printed in represent: 
ing geological views, and the sinoueelogil joe by eight 
plates of fossils. ; 
The expedition was in the field during the summer of 1859; 
and the report of Dr. Newberry, its geologist, bears the = 
“May 1, 1860;” but the “breaking out of the rebellion arr 
its publication, and only recently was its printing order field 
r. Newberry remarks that the region has since Hin the 2 
of several exploring and surveying expeditions, and the su ie 
of their reports; so that = results he obtained have been ey 
cao He has wisely, however, published his report wr 
written, without reference to the later works. The report with 
Fores cise all the more valuable as independent —s ine 
regard to the eee pegeg of the country. itt — 
coal and the Coal-measures of Kansas, and the extension gn 
ing Perm mian, got et at Dragoon Creek ; of the Bi same whe 
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Vicinity of Santa Fé; of the nt of the a oiling spring 
ebullition rt 
ee 
to the Sierra la Plata, including a deser ription of 
of Pagosa, 40 to 50 feet in diameter, in apparent e 
escaping Bases, situated on the San Jua n, up tee x 
the Sierra San Juan and the Sierra del N avajo 
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Yaki River, Sonora, and from the copper oe a 
New Mexico, esides some Carboniferous and Cre’ 
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