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3. Report on the Geological Survey of Ohio: Zoology and 
Botany. Part I, Zoology; consisting of a Preface by Professor 
J. SN EWBERRY; Report on the Mammals, by A. W. Brayton 
= pp-); on the Birds, by Dr. J. M. Waeaton (442 pp.); on the 
eptiles and Amphibians, by Dr. W. H. Ssrrx (106 pp.) ; on the 
ishes, by Dr. D. L. Jonpan (268 pp.). 8vo0. Columbus, 1882. 
4. United States Geological Survey.— The Congress, whose 
term has just expired, with commendable liberality appropriated 
for the Geological Survey a total sum of $341,140 is applies 
to the fiseal year beginning July 1, 1883 and ending June 30, 
1884. The appropriation for the current fiscal year was $258,440, 
80 that the provision for the coming year is on a much more 
liberal scale. The Bureau of Ethnology, which is likewise under 
the direction of Major Powell, had its appropriation raised from 
and to the region of the iron ores, since these, especially the 
former, have been hitherto almost untouched. uring the past 
6, , : 
S. Wit1ams.—Since my paper, at page 97 of this volume, was 
published, I have learned that I was wrong in speaking of the 
ocks of Lime Creek, Iowa, as referred by western geolog 
~ the Kinderhook group. How I was led astray by Seecnper on 
fauna is represented in 
Chemung formation. 
: Ch 
lished the results of an investigation of two minerals of the chon- 
; it , 
though pont related; type I i 
I 
€suvius; those from Kafveltorp belong to t 
ite as now defined. The crystals from tl A 
been subjected to a thorough investigation by Sjigren (Lund 
