418 Scientific Intelligence. 
and the earth in aphelion would in any case be slight, and rather 
vty orable than ae to ams tata of a glacial era. 
ost- Glacial Flood.—Anp article b OWORTH 
fg Gat Post-Glacial Flood, a mehr) _ it the formation of ihe 
liss besides other deposits, is contained in the Geological Maga- 
zing, numbers for January and February, | 882. 
Quincy Syenite— Mr. M. W apswortn, in the Proceed- 
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ings of the Boston Society of Natural Histo ory, vol. xxi, Oct. 19, 
pi 
1881, describes the junction of the Paradoxides slate of Quincy 
with the syenite of the region, and concludes that the latter is 
eruptive and therefore of subsequent age to t late—* late 
Primordial or more recent.” The syenite is stated to be at the 
eetion a “ spherulitic quartz porph 
av old. itroaes of the Geolo ical Rec ord, with a new in- 
Cio ation : Rock-metamorphism and its resultant imita- 
tions of penis ; with an introduction giving an Annotated 
History of the controversy on the so-called “ Hozoon Cana- 
dense ;” by Professor W. Kine and T. H. Rowney. 
8vo, with 8 colored plates. London, 1881. (John Van Voorst.) 
ere given 
own views on the subject of a branch of metamorphism with 
owe the origin of the supposed fossil is associat 
Species of Er wees us we ghee Livin Jrom the Water-lime 
ew near Buffalo.— Junius Pon~man describes and figures 
the ans. as new baer of ‘hes peers in the bea . Buffalo 
Soc. Nat. Sei., vol. iv, No. 2, 1882: Hurypterus giganteus, Ptery- 
gotus pitichudibia I. ucuticaudatus, Pt. Gimartaanidatus, WY se 
1 ag ma 
Chatauqua Scientific Diagrams, Series No. 1. Gene 
and in si a in Geology; by A. S. Packarp, Jk. 128 pp. 
vo, company the diagrams. Providence, R. I., 1882 (Prev 
in Timaciech Co.)—The geological diagrams, ten in number 
are very large lithographic plates, coarse in style of execution, for 
a in the illustration of lectures or first lessons in geology. They 
contain sss iceop tions of some of the k paibyete of the several geologi- 
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work treats briefly and in a tare wa e the # epics illustrated, 
the action of water and heat, and the succession of life on the 
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increase its va iia 
On the Female Flowers of the Coniferce.—Under this head- 
in g rofessor Erceter of Berlin gives his latest views about this 
eiantawk subject in the Monatsberichte der K, Acad. der Wiss., 
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