262 Scientific Intelligence. 
«“ Les Facies Géologiques” ; ah nyt E. iran 8 (Arch. 
Sei “Phys. et Nat. Geneva, Oct., 84).—By “facies” sewers 
Renevier means a sedimentary Ponta that was made under 
special Saaachs: of origin. This condition may be ex ual in 
both the mineral, stratigrapbical and paleontological features, and 
in whatever indicates whether a stratum or formation is marine, 
aerial or fresh-water in origin ; if marine, whether of deep sea or 
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water; of hot water or not; an 
that in geological investigations, these points and others bearing 
on the object i in view should be cong ee wk ge ee He gives 
reasons for the conclusion that the “flysch” of the Eocene is 
littoral in origin, and proniincet the me _ a aro littoral.” 
Under “formations subaériennes” he cribes four facies, the 
Crenogen facies, resultir 4 alg mineral Santen like the geyser 
deposits: Ossiferous facies, surface mer etbageat of bones, or 
bone-breccias; the erratic or oleate facies; the dune facies. 
— facies are recognized under other general ie The 
me ee tand © aifes formation will usually ‘be of one facies in one 
ions will ordinately be throughout of one faci 
ae Floods in the Ohio River—A valuable pions on this subject 
y Mr. Watrer A. Dun, is published in the Journal of the 
Canes Society of Natural History, vol. vii, No. 3, 1884. He 
sustains the view that forests have little influence over the height 
of the floods. 
7. Original Researches in Mineralogy and Chemistry; by J- 
Lawrence Smiru, Membre Correspondant de l’Institut de France, 
etc. Edited by J. B. Marvry, B.S., M.D. xl and 630 pp. 8vo. 
Printed for pet tion only. —Twelve years have passed since 
a volume of the collected papers of Dr. J. Lawrence Smith was 
published. The volume now issued contains besides the papers 
in the former lasin: the various important memoirs later pub- 
lished by him—his scientific activity ceasing only within a few 
months of his death. The volume opens “with ‘a biographical 
sketch prepared by Dr. — at the request of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciene a memorial sketch by Dr. Mip- 
DLETON Micuet, of Spartoston: South Carolina, where Dr, Smith 
was long Professor of Chemistr ; and a sketch of his life and 
scientific work by B. SILLIMAN, written for the National Academy 
of Sciences. It closes with a list of his published papers and 
notes, nu mbering in all one hundred and forty-five. The frontis- 
po. is a faithful likeness of Dr. Smith, taken from that prepared 
for the J. Lawrence Smith gold medal of the National Acad- 
emy, to which kom Silliman alludes as follows in the closing 
$ just and highly appreciative address: 
rejoice that isugh dead he yet lives, and that the work he con 
