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VIII. Notices respecting New Books. 
Geology of Wisconsin. Survey of 1873-9. Vol. I. Part 1. General 
Geology. IL. Natural Mistory. ILI. Industrial Resources, Pub- 
lished under the durection of the chief Geologist, by the Commissioners 
of Publie Printing, wa accordance with Legislatwe Enactment. 8vo, 
pages 1-xxiv, and 1-725. With 11 plates, and 157 other figures. 
[Madison ?] 1883. 
- agreement with the plan laid down at first, the general intro- 
ductory volume is here published last*, although termed 
“vol. i.” The “ General Geology ” is treated under several heads, so 
that any one, taking up and desiring to understand the results of 
the Geological Survey, may make himself acquainted with the 
principles of the science by which the Survey is carried out. Thus 
the Chief Geologist, Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, has been called on to 
supply, and does supply very satisfactorily, a good series of obser- 
vations and teachings on—I. Chemical Geology, in relation to the 
Earth’s Crust; II. Lithological Geology, as to rocks in groups and 
individually,—offering a system of nomenclature, and defining 
technical terms; LI. Historical Geology, under the subordinate 
headings of Laurentian, Huronian, Keweenawan, Cambrian and 
Potsdam, Lower-Silurian or Cambro-Silurian, Upper-Silurian, De- 
vonian, Carboniferous, Reptilian, Tertiary, and Quaternary periods, 
aud their stratal representatives; with many interesting remarks 
on the processes, results, and concomitants, occurring from time to 
time in the geographical and biological conditions of the EHarth’s 
surface. 
Part II. contains chemical analyses of minerals, rocks, ores, and 
waters of Wisconsin, some compiled by R. D. Salisbury (pp. 303— 
308); some made, in a classified system, by R. D. Irving (pp. 309- 
339); and the lithology of Wisconsin by the same (pp. 340-361). 
R. P. Whitfield gives a valuable classified list of the Fossils of 
Wisconsin (pp. 362-375); G. D. Swezey catalogues the Pheeno- 
gamous and Vascular-Cryptogamous plants of Wisconsin (pp. 376— 
395). A partial list of the Fungi of Wisconsin, with descriptions 
of new species, is contributed by W. F. Bundy (pp. 396-401), who 
gives also an account of the Crustacean Fauna of Wisconsin, with 
descriptions of little-known species of Cambarus (pp. 402-405). 
Other interesting natural-history communications are—the Cata- 
logue of the Wisconsin Lepidoptera (pp. 406-421), and of the 
Cold-blooded Vertebrates of Wisconsin (pp. 422-485), both by 
P. R. Hoy. The late Moses Strong’s list of the Mammals of Wis- 
consin follows (pp. 437-440). ) | 
Of the “‘ Economic relations of Wisconsin Birds” an elaborate, 
careful, and useful (at all events .suggestively useful) memoir, by 
F. H. King, is given (pp. 472-610). The results of the examina- 
tion of stomachs and food are shown by notes and tables very fully, 
as to the cases in which Birds are beneficial,—destroying “ noxious 
* See Phil, Mag. for April 1880, p. 302. 
