Geology and Mineralogy. 153 



8. Paleontology of tin BraziUnn (ienUxjhud Surrey. — A let- 

 ter to the editors from Dr. C. A. White states that he has finished 

 two " Contributions for the Brazilian Survey, mi the Civiaceon-. 

 Conchifers an.] tin- ( Vphah.p .>.]>, leaving the Casteropods yet to he 

 studied." He has found a new species of the genus Meekia of Gabb, 

 which he lias named Muk'm eommemorata, in commemoration of 

 the able and greatly esteemed American paleontologist, Mr. .Meek. 



9. Geological Shtrlu* ?/f lh,nt> u»d Al>y<><«l, by Am hiisa li> 

 i; i BOTE, Director General of the Geological Surveys of the Uni- 

 te.] Kingdom. .;:;2 pp., with illustrations. 1882. London and 

 New York. (Macmillan & Co.) — Geological descriptions. Ufa* 

 f rating well the keen eye of the author as well as the "restless 

 energy of nature," landscape sketches almost as living as nature 

 herself, fragments of entertaining history, and amusing incidents 

 of travel, are combined in these collected essays of the aceom- 



and the various work of the wave- Is of rocks; 



-The Huron's Stone of Killochau " discourses about bowlders, 

 glaciers, ;nu\ the delightful scenes of a region within sight of the 

 Firth of Clyde. And similarly, the chapters, "Among the Volca- 

 noes of Central France," " the' Old Glaciers of Norway and Scot- 

 tand," " A Fragment of Primeval Europe," " The Scottish School 

 of Geology," " Geographical Evolution," and others in the work- 

 are those entitled, "'In Wyoming," and "the Geysers of the 

 Yellowstone" — regions visited by Professor Geikie in the sum- 

 mer of 1880. Another also, "the Lava-fields of Northwestern 

 Furope," brings in American facts, and in a way to illustrate, 

 most effectively, phenomena, of Kritain and Ftirope, as already 



(1880, p. 145). Science, ti, rough, >ut the work, is made the genial, 

 amusing and knowing companion of the reader. 



I o. ( Olnmbite, Orthite and Monazit, f *•<>,„ . 1 ,,,* II" Co., I "wyinht. 

 —The description bv Prof. Di vninot'o.v of microlite from Amelia 

 Co., Va., has been noticed in this Journal (xxii, -', 1881). The 

 -aim- author has recently further in vevtigated the other minerals 

 of the locality. The cnlmM, had a red color in thin splinters. 

 H.=5-5. G.4o-4s. Analysis gave: 



